Okay, the post title is a bit sensational, but I couldn’t resist. What it means is that Trevin Wax interviewed N.T. Wright for the Said at Southern blog. You can read it or listen to the podcast.
Thanks to Jonny for sending me the link.
John Piper has a book coming out next month entitled The Future of Justification: A Response to N.T. Wright. In it he addresses N.T. Wright’s take on justification. This is no small matter in the theological world at present. I have heard that he is gracious and sticks to the issue at hand. I’m looking forward to reading it. I don’t know if the two will ever come to terms in the real world, but in my world they are. I have arranged their books so that they are side by side on my bookshelf. Blessed are the peacemakers.
I just finished The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views, and it finished reasonably well with Joel Green making a pretty good case for his kaleidoscopic view. Central to his thesis is that the atonement cannot be understood by merely one theme, but sees it as a multi-layered, multi-dimensional reality. (more…)
Romans 8:18-21:
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the freedom of glory of the children of God.
In working through the meaning of the atonement, a couple of things have occurred to me that are worth further consideration. (more…)
RTS New Testament Prof Reggie Kidd has made a statement calling for a truce in the PCA’s civil war over New Perspective and Federal Vision theologies, saying that outside enemies need to be fought, not inside allies. Some just say no, claiming divided forces necessarily can’t be united. I’m with the Kidd.
Well, I got through Reichenbach’s contribution in The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views, and I must say that I gleaned more from him than I anticipated. His crankiness emerges from time to time, but maybe only because I’m looking for it. While I am unconvinced that his view should be viewed as the central or fundamental motif if the atonement, there were some brilliant reminders in his piece and he certainly added to the rich texture of it. (more…)
Second up in the presenters in The Nature of the Atonement is Thomas Schreiner. All in all it puts forward a good representation of the Penal Substitution View of the atonement. While there weren’t many surprises for me (this is essentially the view I’ve lived with for as long as I knew there was such a thing as an atonement), it was a good read and didn’t say anything concerning the work of Christ on the cross that would raise my hackels (whatever those are). (more…)
The assumptions:
Alastair Roberts does a good job of clarifying N.T. Wrights views on justification. He says that Wright is answering questions that the traditional Reformed answers aren’t built to address. He says that Wright starts from a theological point, where others start from an anthropological one. Is this whole New Perspective flap just miscommunication? Click here to read his article.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works, and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”–and he was called a friend of God. You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
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