The New Perspective on Paul (NPP) and NT Wright
Over the holidays I read an intriguing article - The Attractions of the New Perspective on Paul (link has been corrected) by J Ligon Duncan - critical of the NPP in general and NT Wright in specific.
There is so much enthusiastic support for the thinking of NT Wright within emerging church circles that in a bid to avoid a giddy triumphalism we do well to listen carefully to dissenting voices. I need to read more in this space, but I thought that Duncan brought up some intriguing cautions.
After reading the article, I asked Dr. Duncan if he would recommend any books or articles released since he wrote the article. He suggested (among others)
- Perspectives Old and New on Paul: The "Lutheran" Paul and His Critics by Stephen Westerholm
- Justification and the New Perspectives on Paul by Guy Prentiss Waters
Within the article, Duncan also recommends Charles E. Hill's article NT Wright on Justification.
I also found this site where a number of critiques of NPP, especially dealing with justification, are aggregated.And, of course, more pro-NPP material can be found at the NT Wright Page.
4 comments:
Stephen,
I'm having no luck with that link to the original article. I did a search on Christianity.com, and came up with this link: http://home.christianity.com/local/80277.html, but it only opens a page with the title -- no article. Can you give us some help finding the article?
Ditto
Try linking through Stephens link to other sites critiquing NPP. You will find this article first. I had not trouble clicking through from this site. Here is a copy of the link, though it appears to be the same one Stephne offers above. http://www.christianity.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID307086%7CCHID559376%7CCIID1660662,00.html
My apologies all! I've corrected the link.
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