Reading N.T. Wright is sort of like reading E.B. White if E.B. White wrote theology. And who else could include 7 different punctuation marks in one sentence and still have the sentence make sense? Beyond the love that I have for Wright's writing ability, he does a wonderful job of laying out his argument for his view of justification in both Galatians and Romans, with a side jaunt through a few other books. While some may not agree with everything he says, one would be hard pressed to disagree with his desire to see biblical cohesion and the exaltation of Christ.

Beyond that, Wright gives much food for thought including a demand that believers re-read Piper and others to make sure they have adequately described his teaching. Wright does not pull any punches on how he feels he has been unfairly maligned by Piper and others, including Carson's oft quoted blurb on the jacket of Piper's book.

While Wright may not go far enough in attributing imputation to the concept of justification, he does not deny the sufficiency of Christ's death and resurrection for justification of the believer. ( )

Reading N.T. Wright is sort of like reading E.B. White if E.B. White wrote theology. And who else could include 7 different punctuation marks in one sentence and still have the sentence make sense? Beyond the love that I have for Wright's writing ability, he does a wonderful job of laying out his argument for his view of justification in both Galatians and Romans, with a side jaunt through a few other books. While some may not agree with everything he says, one would be hard pressed to disagree with his desire to see biblical cohesion and the exaltation of Christ.

Beyond that, Wright gives much food for thought including a demand that believers re-read Piper and others to make sure they have adequately described his teaching. Wright does not pull any punches on how he feels he has been unfairly maligned by Piper and others, including Carson's oft quoted blurb on the jacket of Piper's book.

While Wright may not go far enough in attributing imputation to the concept of justification, he does not deny the sufficiency of Christ's death and resurrection for justification of the believer. ( )

Read for a class. Wright's exegesis is highly selective and dubious - he (and the other proponents of the NPP) just redefine the words they don't like to arrive at their predetermined conclusion. Wright in particular completely discounts other NT books but he gives much weight to the apocrypha and Qumran texts to arrive at his "correct" understanding of 1st C. Jewish thought. ( )

This was a thought-provoking book. Although, I must say that I haven't read Piper's book that this book is in response to, therefore I missed out on a portion of the counter-arguments presented by Piper. It brings some very interesting issues related to exactly what justification and righteousness are. I hope some of this issues are fleshed out further in his book on Paul coming out in the next year or so. This book appears to be well thought out and his approach to Scripture is particularly thorough while being aware of Christian traditions with regard to the subject and passages under discussion. In the future, I believe I will need to revisit this book and look at the passages involved more closely. Luckily though this book while it did rely on a variety of passages, it largely relied on the flow of the argument and themes of the Pauline works being studied in the exegesis portion of the work. As a final note, though I did find his notes directed towards Piper especially in the first chapter or so, somewhat annoying, but these have little to do with the actual argument being made. These have little to do with the actual ideas being presented however. ( )

This was my first dive into the recent debates on Justification. This particular book was a response to a book put out by John Piper. While it was a dense read (for me, anyway) at times... I found Wright's wit and humor to be engaging... and his chapters on actual scriptural exegesis were fascinating to trace through. This probably isn't a book for everyone... but for those particularly interested in Pauline theology... you may want to check it out. I thought it was fantastic! ( )