Justification and Variegated Nomism, Vol 1: Complexities of 2nd Temple Judaism
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Publisher: Baker Book House
Author: Carson, D. A.
ISBN-10: 080102272X | ISBN-13: 9780801022722
Binding: Paperback
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Publisher Review: A comprehension of Paul�s understanding of the law and justification has been a perennial problem for historians and theologians. The need for further clarity has given rise to this collection of essays by an international list of esteemed scholars who seek, in the first of two volumes, to illuminate the complexities of the Judaism of Jesus� (and Paul�s) day. Was it a legalistic religion that taught one could be justified before God by obeying law? Was it even one religion, or was it a collection of traditions with some similarities and many dissimilarities? |
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Justification and Variegated Nomism offers a nuanced examination of one of "New Perspective" Pauline Scholar E. P. Sanders' central concepts, covenantal nomism. Covenantal nomism has to do with the idea that the Judaism of Paul's day was not a "works-righteousness" religion in which one earned one's way into God's favor; rather, the individual Jew "got into" the covenant by God's grace, but "stayed in" the covenant by obedience to God's law. Second temple Judaism, according to Sanders, was not legalistic. The various scholars who contribute to this volume are not in exact agreement as to the legitimacy of Sander's concept of covenantal nomism, but D. A. Carson offers a helpful critique of the concept as a blanket application to all aspects of Second temple Judaism. While Reformed scholars will not agree with everything said here, this volume should be read by all who are concerned with the Pauline themes of the Christian and the Law, the doctrine of justification by faith, and the problems of legalism and antinomianism. - Jeff Waddington - Westminster Bookstore Staff
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