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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...

Paul’s understanding of God’s accomplishment in the Messiah is that this single purpose, this plan-through-Israel-for-the-world, this reason-God-called-Abraham (you can see why I prefer the shorthand ‘covenant’; this is going to be a very long book if I have to use multi-hyphenated phrases all the time) finally came to fruition with Jesus Christ. Here is the point which has so puzzled John Piper that he thinks a ‘covenantal’ reading would be a belittling of Paul’s meaning. The single-plan-through-Israel-for-the-world
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