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It’s been called the New Perspective on Paul (NPP), but New Testament scholar Don Garlington says that it actually represents a return to the original context in which Paul proclaimed the gospel of Christ. These essays and reviews address challenges made against the NPP and presents a positive case for a view of justification, union with Christ, and other core Pauline doctrines in light of Second...

As Wright puts it so insightfully, the NT represents the climax of a story, the story of Israel. The NT writers as a whole take Israel’s history and redraw it around Jesus and his people.66 This has manifold implications for both eschatology and ecclesiology. (2) By stressing the place of the NT within its own historical environment, the NPP endeavors to address the actual issues being debated in the first-century context. In brief, those debates centered particularly around the ongoing role of the
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