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Not since the sixteenth century has the doctrine of justification stood so clearly at the center of theological debate as it has in the last 30 years. This often polemical dialogue has been fueled particularly by discussions on the “New Perspective on Paul.” This important collection draws together diverse voices, committed to an irenic engagement, to explore the historical development and...

them. Rather, faith is a free gift of God, by the instrumentality of which justification is obtained. Some Reformed theologians have also been concerned lest the significance of faith be lost by regarding it simply as another step in the ordo salutis. Berkouwer, for example, expresses the concern in this way: If the ordo salutis were really intended to be a straight line drawn through a sequence of causal factors it would be open to the same objections that we have against the Roman Catholic concept
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