Think Wink.

John Piper’s new book, The Future of Justification is now available to read on-line at his website in a PDF format. I have just finished reading through the introductory material and the first chapter and I must say, this is going to be a good book. The sense I have thus far is that Piper really wants the reader to weigh out both sides of the debate and prayerfully and through careful study of Scripture, choose who is most correct. The part that really excited me about this book is the following excerpt from the introductory material,

Most significant of all was the feedback I received from N. T. Wright. He wrote an 11,000-word response to my first draft that was very helpful in clarifying issues and (I hope) preventing distortions.

Piper admits that this book is for the more academic audience and not for the common layperson sitting in the pews of a church. For those who want to understand more about the debate of the New Perspective on Paul (a.k.a. NPP) from the traditional Reformed view, check this out. Remember it is free if you read the PDF. If it is good enough, I’ll probably buy the book (This is one of the good things I like about reading through the on-line version. I can sample as much of the book I need to before I decide to pay for it. This is how I decided to get What Jesus Demands from the World. I read about twelve chapters from his website and felt I needed to have the book in hand to study what it said more in-depth.)

An Excerpt from “The Future of Justification”

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Liberalism, Jesus, and Eschatology