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In debates surrounding the New Perspective on Paul, the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers are often characterized as the apostle’s misinterpreters in chief. In this book Stephen Chester challenges that conception with a careful and nuanced reading of the Reformers’ Pauline exegesis. Examining the overall contours of early Reformation exegesis of Paul, Chester contrasts the Reformers with...
no part of its basis before God. There is a strong sense of the complete and perfect nature of the salvation granted to the believer: “In place of the two-way medieval Catholic path of gradual cooperation between God and humanity that leads to salvation, there entered the new theme that God alone is effective.”2 If this is true, then grace cannot be a quality in the believer. Instead, grace “is nothing but God himself in his mercy, the grace of God, God giving himself in community with the sinner.”3
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