So, I’ve gone on about ‘the Imputation of Righteousness’ a lot over the last year. I wrote my dissertation on it, I’ve made blog posts about it. What though, in simple terms, is it?
I think this is as simple as I can make it:
We lack the status of sons before God.
This is because of our […]
I’d like to point your attention over to the new section on the right above my blogroll entitled ‘A Look Around.’ The Name will change to something better when I think of it. It houses the currently empty ‘essays’ page and a link to my dissertation: Clothed In Righteousness.
I’ve talked about this before. It’s an […]
My dear friend Sam Pollard has left a comment on my post commenting on Edwards on imputation. It, as I was expect from Sam, is well thought through, deep, meaningful, theological and it taught me something.
Go and read our exchange.
It’s a shame he’s an Anglican.
So what should we have learnt from Jonathan Edwards? Imputation is important. Without that you don’t have much left. It’s a little bit like a house of cards. When you fire a nuclear missile at it, there isn’t much left afterwards.
When researching for my dissertation, I turned to Edwards to read what he had to say on imputation. According to the study of Pauline theology I did in my degree last year, there seemed to be some debate as to whether or not Edwards actually held the imputation of righteousness as the ground of justification. […]
The Greek word for “justify” (δικαιοω, dikaioō) does not mean “forgive.” It means to declare righteous, usually in a court of law. A prisoner … is justified if he is found not guilty. Forgiveness means to be found guilty and then not have the guilt reckoned to you but let go.
- John Piper, Counted Righteous […]
Christ has become our substitute in two senses: in his suffering and death he becomes our curse and condemnation … And in his suffering and life he becomes our perfection
- John Piper, Counted Righteous In Christ, 41
A new series of short reflections on different aspects of what the Gospel is.
The Gospel is:
A Gift of Righteousness
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
Romans 4:3
We have a problem of unrighteousness. That is to say, we have no standing in […]
Quick bit of background, ‘δικαιος’ would normally be translated in your New Testament as ‘righteous.’
In the background is the fact that God Himself is δικαιος. The fact that in Hellenistic Judaism, too, God can be called δικαιος, the One who is infallibley consistent in the normative self-determination of His own nature, and who maintains unswerving […]
James Dunn on E.P. Sanders; that is to say, the guy who coined the phrase the ‘New Perspective’ on the guy who kicked it all into gear:
He demonstrated that Judaism has always been first and foremost a religion of grace, with human obedience understood as a response to that grace. The covenant had been given […]