Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N. T. Wright

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“Paradigm change: ‘Ecclesiology is the new soteriology.’ Wright’s exegetical revolution reframes how we view what Paul says about justification. Whereas for medieval Catholics justification meant ‘to make one righteous’ and for Luther ‘to declare one righteous,’ for Wright it means ‘to declare one a covenant member.’” (Page 245)

“For those inclined to undertake biblical theology through the lens of a narrative theology, Tom’s paradigm grounds such a reading strategy in the historical Jesus himself and thereby provides hard backing, the gold standard of history.” (Pages 101–102)

“‘whenever Paul is talking about justification by faith he is also talking about the coming together of Jews and Gentiles into the single people of God.’” (Page 245)

“Wright’s charge that Reformation theology has bowed the knee to tradition rather than Scripture on this issue” (Page 235)

“By and large the perceived problem with Wright’s position is not what he affirms but what he denies.” (Page 241)