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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...

It is also clear that Paul has in view a ‘righteousness of God’ which works the salvation of the human being, since this verse explains why the gospel is the ‘power of God for salvation’. The revelation of God’s righteousness fulfils the prophetic scripture in Habbakuk that ‘the righteous one shall live by faith’, that is to say, the revelation of ‘righteousness of God’ effects the life of the age to come.40 As was common by his day, Paul transposes the prophetic promise of deliverance through—not
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