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Right With God: Why Justification Still Matters
Vol. 11, No. 2 • Mar/Apr 2002
“What’s the big deal?” I hear that a lot as a Council member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Why are we harping so much on the doctrine of justification? What’s at stake and why are we so nitpicky about it? Well, good question. Of course, we are not the first to “harp” on this […]
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The Doctrine of Justification
“What’s the big deal?” I hear that a lot as a Council member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Why are we harping so much on the doctrine of justification? What’s at stake and why are we so nitpicky about it? Well, good question. Of course, we are not the first to “harp” on this […]
A Reformed Critique of the New Perspective
The New Perspective on Paul, as it has been called, raises serious questions for Protestants committed to the doctrine of justification by faith. This school of thought does so in two ways. On the one hand, it questions the Apostle Paul’s relationship to-and understanding of-Judaism. On the other hand, it undermines the Reformation’s understanding of […]
What’s All the Fuss About?
How is the doctrine of justification faring in our day? Historically, of course, the reformers ap-proached it with the utmost seriousness. For example, consider the impassioned plea of Martin Luther written in the preface to his Forty-Five Theses drawn up in 1537: “The article of justification is the master and prince, the lord, the ruler, […]
“Solution to Plight”? Get Real!
In reading the literature of the New Perspective carefully, we see several glaring weaknesses that deserve attention. One of the catchphrases of the New Perspective is “solution to plight.” The proponents believe that Paul underwent an experience on the road to Damascus that took place apart from any supposed inner struggle that we expect he […]
Justification and Sanctification Distinguished
It is a difficult and perhaps even a dangerous task to take a single doctrine from the body of Christian theology and isolate it. You have to ensure that the doctrine being extracted and examined is not given a life independent of the body from which it is taken. In other words, care must be […]
“How the Covenant Illuminates Salvation and Evangelism” by Norman Shepherd
Books are never written in a vacuum, and the context of both author and audience often determines the interest that a book generates and the reception it receives. In the case of Norman Shepherd’s The Call of Grace: How the Covenant Illuminates Salvation and Evangelism, the context can hardly be ignored. Shepherd was involved in […]
