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At the end of the day, the central notion of sin in
Wright's thought is that it is somehow anarchic rebellion against shalom, and the triumph
at the end is the restoration of shalom. What is lost is the intensely personal dimension of
sin: it is rebellion against God, and he is regularly portrayed as the most offended party
(cf. Ps 51!).http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/5581_5877.pdf
when you're done reading everything that has been written to promote the New Perspective, the issues of personal guilt, individual redemption, and atonement for sin have hardly been dealt with at all. These great soteriological doctrines are left in a fog of uncertainty and confusion.http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/new_p.html
I think it's ironic that N. T. Wight and other proponents of the New Perspective invariably complain that Luther and the Reformers were guilty of reading a conflict from their own time back into the New Testament. My answer would be that N. T. Wright and friends are doubly guilty of reading their own notions of twenty-first-century political correctness back into the text of the Pauline epistles. And the view they have come up with has a distinct post-modern slant. It is a perfect postmodern blend of inclusivism, anti-individualism, a subtle attack on certainty and assurance, and above all, ecumenism.http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/new_p.html
Works don't justify, not because they are legalistic, but because of human sin and disobedience. Salvation has to be by grace because human works fall short of the standard God requires. When we say salvation is by faith alone, we are saying that salvation is entirely God's work.110-111, Faith Alone by Thomas Schreiner Copyright ©2015 by Schreiner. Used by permission of HarperCollins Christian Publishing. www.harpercollinschristian.com
[Gal 3:10] Works of law, then, are defined as everything written in the law, and the curse is unleashed on those who fail to keep everything commanded. The fundamental reason for the curse, then, is not the imposition of the law on the Gentiles (through that is clearly wrong), but disobedience -the failure to keep what the law says.103, Faith Alone by Thomas Schreiner Copyright ©2015 by Schreiner. Used by permission of HarperCollins Christian Publishing. www.harpercollinschristian.com
Rom 3:20. Justification doesn't come by works of law, since the knowledge of sin is disclosed through the law. Paul does not say that the law fails to justify because the Jews excluded the Gentiles. Instead, the law uncovered their sin, demonstrating that they failed to keep what God enjoined.101, Faith Alone by Thomas Schreiner Copyright ©2015 by Schreiner. Used by permission of HarperCollins Christian Publishing. www.harpercollinschristian.com
Despite these strengths in the New Perspective view, their understanding of works of law isn't persuasive. The term doesn't limit its focus on the boundary markers but instead refers to the entire law. In other words, Paul's fundamental criticism wasn't that the badges of the law were imposed on the Gentiles, as if they were compelled to become Jews. Instead "works of the law" refers to the entire law, which includes, of course, the boundary markers.Faith Alone by Thomas Schreiner Copyright ©2015 by Schreiner. Used by permission of HarperCollins Christian Publishing. www.harpercollinschristian.com, 100
To claim that the Paul of Galatians was exercised over the terms by which Gentiles can belong to the people of God while overlooking his (still more fundamental) concern with the dilemma facing all human beings responsible before God is to suffer from a peculiarly modern myopia.Justification Reconsidered, 18
As in his other books, Wright mistakenly assumes that the Reformation view argues that God's essential righteousness-in other words, his own attribute of righteousness-is somehow given to believers. But this overlooks the crucial role of Jesus Christ as mediator in the traditional view: It is not God's attribute of righteousness, but the right-standing that results from a complete fulfillment of God's law, that is imputed to believers. It is Christ's obedience, not his.http://www.whitehorseinn.org/images/Horton-WrightReview.pdf
Ultimately, the New Perspective divests the gospel of or downplays every significant aspect of soteriology. The means of atonement is left vague in this system; the issues of personal sin and guilt are passed over and brushed aside. The gospel becomes a proclamation of victory, period. In other words, the gospel of the New Perspective is decidedly not a message about how sinners can escape the wrath of God. In fact, this gospel says little or nothing about personal sin and forgiveness, individual redemption, atonement, or any of the other great soteriological doctrines.http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/new_p.html
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