JUSTIFICATION
What's at stake in the current debates
Editors: Mark Husbands and Daniel J. Treier. Apollos. 278 pages. £14.99
ISBN 1 84474 027 7
As the blurb on the back cover indicates, this volume of essays addresses some key questions for our understanding of justification. They raise issues that lie at the heart of the great divide between Rome and the Protestant churches, as well as those that 'raise tensions even among Protestant denominations'.
Flicking through the contents of this substantial paperback the eye is immediately drawn to the first two papers by Robert Gundry and Don Carson. Gundry, an early critic of the new scholarly ways of thinking of Paul and the Judaism of his day, does not believe that the Bible supports the general Protestant view that Christ's righteousness is imputed to the believer. In his essay he does battle with John Piper's recent book that challenges Gundry's position. Carson, in his paper entitled 'The vindication of imputation', comes to the defence of the traditional Protestant position and counters the arguments of Gundry.
