Guy Prentiss Waters. Justification and the New Perspectives on Paul: A Review and Response. P&R, 2004. 273 pp. [rate 3] I just recently came across Perrin’s evaluation of Waters’s Justification and the New Perspectives on Paul (WTSBooks). “Whatever the merits of Justification and the New Perspectives as a primer on twentieth-century Pauline scholarship, the author […]
Paul
Titus 2:11 in Context
“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people (Ἐπεφάνη γὰρ ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ σωτήριος πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις)” (Tit 2:11). This text is a favorite of Arminians and pseudo-Reformed men like Donald G. Bloesch, who asserts, “The Calvinist position, especially as transmitted through Reformed orthodoxy, stands in palpable conflict with the New […]
Westerholm on Righteousness and Covenant
I love this selection from Westerholm’s Perspectives Old and New on Paul. To this point I have discussed Paul’s usage of the dikaio– terminology with scarcely a reference to “the covenant.” So astonishing an omission can only be accounted for by a narrow preoccupation with the Pauline texts, which never link the vocabulary of “righteousness” […]
A Pauline Response to Voice
Greg Linscott of SharperIron asks, “What’s Wrong with This Picture?” in response to Curtis Allen’s presence at John Piper’s Bethlehem Baptist Church. You can view the video on YouTube. It’s also embedded below. https://youtube.com/watch?v=N2xyaUnkkZg