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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...

Thus, justifying faith and sanctifying regeneration can both be rooted in union with Christ without implying that the former results from the latter because both depend on grace. Indeed, Calvin bases his denial of infusion on the contrast between it and union with Christ, who is made by the Father “the fountain out of whose fullness all may draw.”13 Justification is a work of God for us that is received always and only in union with Christ. We shall see that there is for Calvin a logical dependence
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