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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...

should be understood as being prospective, i.e. “he was raised for (the purpose of) our justification”. What stands behind this passage is Isa. 53:11. There, the Servant of the Lord suffers and is justified in the heavenly courtroom upon seeing “the light”. The result of the Servant’s own resurrection-justification is that he will “justify many”. Hence, justification is primarily a function of Christ’s resurrection.76 Without driving a wedge between Christ’s death and resurrection, the rhetoric of
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