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 […]
Some more dissertation type-stuff (Is this actually interesting? I’m less compelled to post this anyway if it isn’t). This is about E. P. Sanders, who’s a major New Perspective figure, and kicked it all off with his book Paul and Palestinian Judaism.
Sanders suggests that both Paul and Judaism regard works as the principle of continuing […]
More dissertation notes! Winninge seems to be a New Perspective type, at least in part, and generally fairly against my pretty traditional reformed views that righteousness is forensic, that righteousness is imputed, that righteousness is not convenant faithfulness alone. (Although it should be noted that God’s righteousness is heavily linked to his faithfulness to his […]
I may be wrong here, but it seems like the New Perspective suffers very badly from focussing not even on the work of Christ, but on the benefits of Christ (and the pretty specific ones of covenant membership at that) to the exclusion of correct Christian devotion to the all-surpassing glory of the person of […]