Review of Jerry Seright’s The Gospel of Christ in Romans: Righteousness and Life From Grace

A Review of The Gospel of Christ in Romans: Righteousness and Life From Grace. Thanks to Abigail Davidson  of WinePress Group for the review copy.

The author of this book, Jerry Seright, was a missionary in Northeast Brazil. Seright currently serves as  the preaching pastor of South MacArthur Church of Christ located in Irving Texas. The [...]

N.T. Wright’s New Book, “Paul and the Faithfulness of God “

N.T. Wright, one of my favorite NT scholars, is working on the fourth volume (“Paul and the Faithfulness of God “) of the series of Christian Origisn and the Question of God. I’m impatiently waiting for this volume to release. I hope  Wright would give serious attention to Campbell’s  groundbreaking research, “The Deliverance of God: [...]

The Justification Debate: A Primer

FROM CHRISTIANITY TODAY
The Justification Debate: A Primer
Two of the world’s most prominent pastor-theologians on justification—and what difference it makes.
John Piper and N.T. Wright, compiled by Trevin Wax
(Wax’s chart is also available to download. Click on the link to do so.)  
 
“Since Christianity Today’s August 2007 cover story, “What Did Paul Really Mean?” Piper and [...]

Adrian Rogers on Paul and James, Justification by Faith and Justification by Works

One of the things I  enjoy doing besides reading is to listen to sermons online. The late Adrian Rogers, former Pastor of the famous Bellevue Baptist Church (Memphis, TN)  was  one my favorite preahers. He is still!
Today I listened to a sermon he preached several years ago ” The Autopsy of a Dead Faith.”  Speaking [...]

Ben Witherington, N.T. Wright and Justification

I’m not sure what to name this post: whether it is a sympathetic or friendly defense of N. T. Wright’s view of justification against what Witherington calls “conservative Evangelicals from the űber-Reformed side of the ledger (i.e John Piper, D.A. Carson, Simon Gathercole, etc) or a reflection of Witherington’s own view on justification. Perhaps it [...]

MUST-READS: TOP 5 Books IN New Testament STUDIES (Part II)

Below I list the Top 5 books that are noteworthy in the discipline of the New Testament which you must read if you’re a student  of the Bible, especially of the New Testament.  This is not an exhaustive list per se but it does, however,  cover the trajectories of the major sub-disciplines  (i.e. NT Theology,  NT Christology, OT [...]

Understanding N. T. Wright’s View of Justification

Understanding N. T. Wright’s View of Justification
Wright stresses that justification is not anthropocentric, as much it is concerned “me” and “my salvation,”  “you” and your salvation,” as it is traditionally resounded in Reformed Theology.  Rather, justification is theocentric and cosmic in scope. Wright espouses a theocentric justification in opposition to an anthropocentric justification. In particular, [...]

N. T. Wright discusses his new book, “Justification: God’s Plan & Paul’s Vision”

Scot Mcknight Reviews N.T. Wright’s “Justification: God’s Plan & Paul’s Vision

         
    
 
WHERE DO I PLACE PAUL?

AND JUDAISM/THE RABBIS ?

Over at Jesus Creed, Scot Mcknight is reviewing N.T. Wright’s new book “ Justification: God’s Plan & Paul’s Vision.” He already completed three blog posts. Here they are:

Justification and New Perspective 1
“… until someone has read Sanders, Dunn, and Wright, and then examined both the Jewish evidence and the [...]

Trevin Interviews Michael Bird

At Kingdom People, Trevin Wax interviews our own doctor : Michale Bird.  Michael talks about his new book on Paul (“Introducting Paul: The Man, His Mission and His Message“) justification, the New Perspective on Paul,  Christ’s righteousness (the very title of this blog [:)), the doctrine of imputation, Paul’s understanding of the Gospel and salvation, [...]