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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...

This covenant relationship was regulated by the law, not as a way of entering the covenant, or of gaining merit, but as the way of living within the covenant; and that included the provision of sacrifice and atonement for those who confessed their sins and thus repented.… This attitude Sanders characterized by the now well known phrase “covenantal nomism”—that is, “the maintenance of status” among the chosen people of God by observing the law given by God as part of that covenant relationship.9 In
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