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Christ, Our Righteousness: Paul’s Theology of Justification is unavailable, but you can change that!

Since the time of the Reformation, considerable attention has been given to the theme of justification in the thought of the apostle Paul. The ground-breaking work of E.P. Sanders in Paul and Palestinian Judaism, published in 1977, introduced the “new perspective on Paul,” provoking an ongoing debate which is now dominated by major protagonists. Foundational theological issues are at stake. Mark...

behalf of the entire earth. The nations themselves expect to receive his saving justice (verses 7–9). For this reason the very elements of creation—the sea, the rivers and the hills—celebrate his coming.14 The fidelity which God displays toward Israel is only one manifestation of the saving righteousness which he exercises as ruler of all. The ‘creational’ context of ‘God’s righteousness’ which appears in Psalm 98 is characteristic of biblical usage. The language of ‘righteousness’ appears with remarkable
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