Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme

by Stephen Westerholm

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2013

Overview

Much has been written of late about what the Apostle Paul really meant when he spoke of justification by faith, not the works of the law. This short study by Stephen Westerholm carefully examines proposals on the subject by Krister Stendahl, E. P. Sanders, Heikki Räisänen, N. T. Wright, James D. G. Dunn, and Douglas A. Campbell. In doing so, Westerholm notes weaknesses in traditional understandings that have provoked the more recent proposals, but he also points out areas in which the latter fail to do justice to the apostle.

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Contents

Top Highlights

“Paul’s message can only have won acceptance among non-Jews by addressing a need they themselves perceived as important—if not before, at least after they met him. On the nature of that need, his letters are unambiguous.” (Pages 4–5)

“With or without an introspective conscience, anyone who takes seriously a warning of imminent divine judgment must deem it an urgent concern to find God merciful.” (Pages 5–6)

“Salvation’ in Thessalonians meant deliverance from God’s wrath and judgment; it means the same in Corinthians.” (Page 7)

“To lift Paul out of his first-century context is to distort him.” (Pages 1–2)

“Where Paul was concerned about the possibility for Gentiles to be included in the messianic community, his statements are now read as answers to the quest for assurance about man’s salvation out of a common human predicament’” (Page 2)

Product Details

• Title: Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme
• Author: Stephen Westerholm
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 112
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Justification (Christian theology); Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul › Theology
• ISBNs: 9780802869616, 0802869610
• Resource ID: LLS:JSTFCTNRCNSDRD
• Resource Type: text.monograph.biblical-theology
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:59:05Z

About Stephen Westerholm

Stephen Westerholm (b. 1949) is a Canadian scholar and associate professor of biblical studies at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. He received BA and MA degrees from the University of Toronto and a ThD from the University of Lund (Sweden). He is noted for his work in Pauline studies and is most recently known for his interaction with the New Perspective on Paul.