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Title: Dangerous
Review: While I appreciate Wright's defense of Paul as a faithful expositor of the teaching's of Christ, his book, as with all Covenantal Nominism undermines the gospel of our Lord.Justification is indeed about how one is saved, not merely who is included in the covenant. While Wright brings helpful insight into the mind of a 1st century Jewish convert, he overstates his case by attacking the orthodox and historic Christian understanding of justification by faith apart from works. Serious consideration of Romans 5 is not given in this book, and the Lutheran/Reformed/Evangelical understanding of justification as the foresnic imputation of Christ's righteousness to undeserving sinners is scoffed at as unscholarly.But nothing could be further from the truth. Those who do get this book, I must recommend you also purchase "Counted Righteous in Christ" by John Piper, and exegetical defense of the orthodox understanding of justification.
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