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In what has become known as the New Perspective on Paul, Tom Wright has proposed a vision of the apostle’s central message that does full justice to all Paul’s letters. In particular, he focuses on the God-centered nature of Paul’s Gospel, arguing that “traditional” readings of Paul can suggest that the apostle’s message is simply about us: our sin, our justification, our salvation. Ambitious in...

‘the unexamined basis for resolving all questions about [Paul’s] soteriology’.18 That, of course, is just a smokescreen: the only ‘lack of examination’ on show here is not biblical covenant theology, which I and others have examined pretty thoroughly, but Seifrid’s own persistent refusal to examine what is thereby actually being said.19 Westerholm excuses his earlier failure to mention ‘covenant’ by saying, with gentler sarcasm than Seifrid, that it is because he has been narrowly preoccupied with
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