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19 Οκτ 2007 · John Piper: Justification—being counted by God as righteous with the perfect obedience and righteousness of Jesus Christ credited to my account—is, I think, a key to the doctrine of assurance and a key to what it means to preach the Gospel.
In fact, Piper speaks of our works being brought forward as “compelling evidence” in final justification at the last day and appeals to Jesus’ words in Matthew 12:37, “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”. Piper equates “words” with “works of love.”.
Piper and Wright have taken the debate on justification from the academy to the masses. Here is where the two evangelicals differ. Download a PDF of this article here.
Today’s interview with N.T. Wright (Bishop of Durham) concerns his new book: Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision. Justification represents Wright’s response to John Piper’s The Future of Justification (see my commentary here) and is scheduled for release in the UK in February by SPCK and in the U.S. in May by IVP.
In his most recent response to Harrison Perkins’s TGC review of his book, Piper cites John Calvin as an example of someone who includes affections as a part of faith: “‘In a word, faith is . . . a warm embrace of Christ.’. Even the aspect of faith called ‘assent . . . consists in pious affection.’”
Piper, who is the pastor for preaching and vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is concerned that Wright’s presentation of the gospel, specifically the doctrine of justification, “is so disfigured that it becomes difficult to recognize as biblically faithful” (p. 15).
18 Σεπ 2018 · In 2007, Piper’s book The Future of Justification: A Response to N.T. Wright was published. Piper wrote this book in response to a growing acceptance of the NPP and more specifically, to various academic lectures, books and articles produced by Wright on the topic of justification.
