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Faith Alone—The Doctrine of Justification: What the Reformers Taught … and Why It Still Matters is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Faith Alone: The Doctrine of Justification renowned biblical scholar Thomas Schreiner looks at the historical and biblical roots of the doctrine of justification. He summarizes the history of the doctrine, looking at the early church and the writings of several of the Reformers. Then, he turns his attention to the Scriptures and walks readers through an examination of the key texts in the Old...

Despite these strengths in the New Perspective view, their understanding of works of law isn’t persuasive.5 The term doesn’t limit its focus on the boundary markers but instead refers to the entire law. In other words, Paul’s fundamental criticism wasn’t that the badges of the law were imposed on the Gentiles, as if they were compelled to become Jews. Instead “works of law” refers to the entire law, which includes, of course, the boundary markers. Further, the reason why justification or receiving
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