Monergism Books

The Old Perspective on Paul

Binding: Hardcover
Page Count: 102
Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria
ISBN#: 9781573581653

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Description: In recent years, a small but vocal minority of teachers has questioned the traditional Protestant understanding of justification with it's emphasis on the individual's need for the imputed righteousness of Christ. However, as the apostle Paul well knew, without the perfect righteousness of Jesus, we have no hope at all of ever being accepted of the Father. In this book, Puritan Obadiah Grew addressed the need for, and efficacy of the imputed righteousness of Christ as that which alone secures salvation. And the appeal here is not simply to Martin Luther, but to Scripture, the final authority of all disputes.

Review: The recent attack on the imputation of Christ’s righteousness to the sinner, by those who espouse a “New Perspective” on Paul’s doctrine of justification, demands of the Christian a solid grounding in the biblical witness of Christ, who is revealed to us in Jeremiah’s prophecy as “the Lord our righteousness”. This timely reprint of Obadiah Grew’s classic treatment is a most welcome contribution to that end. more...