Recent Discussion on the New Perspective on Paul

There’s been a lot of buzz on the web about the New Perspective on Paul (Wikipedia | Theopedia) in the last couple of weeks. Here’s a roundup of what I’ve come across:

Bryan Chapell at Resurgence: An Explanation of the New Perspective on Paul for Friends of Covenant Theological Seminary (PDF)

Simon Gathercole at Christianity Today:

• What Did Paul Really Mean? (cf. our summary)
• cf. the accompanying Further Reading on the New Perspective (not by Gathercole?)
• cf. After the New Perspective: Works, Justification and Boasting in Early Judaism and Romans 1-5

Scott McKnight at Jesus Creed:

• New Perspective 1
• New Perspective 2
• New Perspective 3
• New Perspective 4
• New Perspective 5

Rick Phillips at Reformation21: Holding the Line on Justification

P. Andrew Sandlin at Reformed Catholicism: What Did Simon Gathercole—and Moses—Really Mean?

Douglas Wilson at Blog and Mablog:

• Two Kinds of Blamelessness
• By Popular Request

See also John Piper’s forthcoming book: The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright

• Excerpt from the conclusion
• Endorsement from Darrell Bock
• Endorsement from Gerald Bray
• Endorsement from Peter O’Brien

For further study, you will, of course, want to visit these sites:

• The Paul Page
• The N. T. Wright Page
• Paul’s Perspective

Update: Krister Stendahl’s (in)famous article is now available at The Paul Page: “The Apostle Paul and the
Introspective Conscience of the West.”I have seen five basic groups with reference to the New Perspective.

1. Those who wholeheartedly reject it.
2. Those who acknowledge some positive points, but are largely not in favor of it.
3. Those who have some reservations about some points, but are largely in favor of it.
4. Those who wholeheartedly defend it.
5. Those who know little to nothing about it.

I’m probably a #2. Where would you fall?

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