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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...

set out Augustine’s “new understanding of justification”—new, that is, in relation to Augustine’s earlier belief—exposed in Various Questions to Simplician, written in the year 396, soon after he became bishop in Hippo. In responding to Simplician’s request for clarification of Romans 9:1–29, as Augustine himself put it in his Reconsiderations thirty years later, “I tried hard to maintain the free choice of the human will, but the grace of God prevailed.”2 “Augustine’s teaching on justification altered
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