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The Saving Righteousness of God: Studies on Paul, Justification and the New Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book presents a series of studies on contentious aspects of Paul’s doctrine of justification including the meaning of righteousness, the question of imputation, the role of resurrection in justification, an evaluation of the New Perspective, the soteriological and ecclesiological significance of justification, justification by faith with judgment according to works, and debates over the...

Eberhard Jüngel contends that justification is God’s supreme saving righteousness and includes forgiveness and renewal.31 In this apocalyptic school of thought a trend has emerged in taking the righteousness of God as signifying God’s act of “rectification”.32 The words “rectify” and “rectification” are used because they lack the legal baggage of “justify” and the ethical and religious connotations of “righteousness”. They signify: “God’s making right what has gone wrong” and situate God’s saving
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