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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...

Christological statements about justification were thus already given to Paul in the apostolic faith tradition, which he inherited. 6.2 Paul quotes and comments upon the boldest of the pre-Pauline traditions about justification in Romans 3:25: God installed him (i.e., Christ) publicly as the place of atonement (ἱγαστήριον) by virtue of his blood, as a demonstration of his (i.e., God’s) righteousness through the remission of the sins previously committed under God’s patience. In this text, which
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