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The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright is unavailable, but you can change that!

Respected all over the world, N. T. Wright has spent a lifetime studying the New Testament. Yet, many church leaders and traditional scholars have identified significant points of discontinuity between Wright’s conclusions and what many interpreters—from Augustine to today—have to say about “justification by faith” as it is taught in Paul’s epistles.

For N. T. Wright, God’s covenant with Israel is the dominant concept for understanding Paul and justification.1 This covenant is part of an even larger picture of the fallenness of creation and God’s glorious purpose to rescue his creation from sin and its effects. The point of election always was that humans were sinful, that the world was lapsing back into
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