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Revisiting Paul’s Doctrine of Justification: A Challenge to the New Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

Since 1963, substantial objections have been raised against the traditional view of the Pauline doctrine of justification, mainly by New Testament scholars such as Krister Stendahl, E. P. Sanders, and James D. G. Dunn. This book evaluates the “New Perspective on Paul” and finds it wanting. With appreciation for the important critique already offered by Donald Hagner, which is included in this...

In my opinion, conversion is the right word to use for Paul’s rejection of Judaism and turning to the faith of the Christian community he had been persecuting. But I do not think that it is correct to say that he converted to a new religion or that Paul himself would ever have thought so. Christianity, for Paul, is nothing other than the faith of his ancestors come to an eschatological phase of fulfillment before the final consummation. The Christian community is the true Israel, if not the new Israel.
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