JUSTIFICATION
Five views
Edited by James K. Beilby & Paul R. Eddy. SPCK. 319 pages. £15.99
ISBN 978 0 281 067 343
This is the latest volume on controversial matters in Christian thought to be edited by Beilby and Eddy, colleagues in the Biblical and Theological Studies department of Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota.
The inclusion of Justification in such a series needs no explanation. In the 16th and 17th centuries, there was strong and costly disagreement over it which has surfaced again of late. The words that follow the noun ‘Justification’ in the title make this clear. Not only do we not have ‘by faith alone’. We do not even have ‘by faith’! Instead we have ‘five views’.
