Perspectives Old and New on Paul: The “Lutheran” Paul and His Critics (Biblia.com)

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Here, finally, is a much-needed review and analysis of the divergent interpretations of Paul. With a clear head and winsome sense of humor, Stephen Westerholm compares the traditional understanding of Paul to more recent readings, drawing on the writings of key figures in the debate both past and present. Westerholm first offers a detailed portrait of the “Lutheran” Paul, including the way such...

about himself that Paul might be expected to make on the basis of his own clear conscience, though he refuses to do so. In brief, and in the broadest of terms, then, (ordinary) dikaiosness, as contrasted with sin, must be what one ought to do,8 the dikaios (in the ordinary way) is the one who does dikaiosness,9 and to dikaiosify is to “declare (to be dikaios, or to be) innocent of wrongdoing.” A quotation from the Septuagint may be allowed to illustrate the ordinary sense of all three terms: Solomon

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