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Modern interpreters of Paul’s writings have typically assessed these texts in light of the exegetical and theological work of John Calvin, Martin Luther, and Philip Melanchthon. In the last few decades, a contrasting interpretive outlook—the “New Perspective” on Paul—has been articulated and developed by N. T. Wright and other scholars. This New Perspective, relying on a different set of...

And so Paul does not, on this view, oppose faith in Christ to works righteousness but instead to the identification of righteousness with Jewish identity. And so you see this fits closely with Dunn’s reinterpretation of the phrase “not by the works of the law.” “Not by the works of the law” means not by maintaining a separate Jewish identity from Gentiles. And here, when Paul has a robust conscience before coming to faith in Christ, then afterwards, he is opposing faith in Christ not to works righteousness
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