The Evangelical Theological Society [ETS] chose the theme of "Justification By Faith" for their 2010 gathering of scholars. Obviously, Wright's New Pauline Perspective was the centerpiece and Wright was the invited guest.
In his report about the this years ETS meeting, Dr.Craig Blomberg made the following observation concerning the much debated issue. His assessment is more than thought provoking......Selah!
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"Church and parachurch groups that make sweeping prohibitions against their members imbibing anything of the new perspective at best simply don’t understand it and at worst are quenching the Spirit’s work in their midst. In fact, the more likely danger for most evangelicals, especially those who most severely criticize the new perspective, is that they will miss the necessary applications of Paul’s warnings to their own proclivities to draw theological boundaries too narrowly between insiders and outsiders, to overly elevate their cultures, nationalities, and tribalisms to a place for inappropriate boasting, and to invoke mandates as to what people must do or believe to be insiders far beyond anything demonstrably biblical, and thus unwittingly mirror precisely a majority of first-century Palestinian Jews (and so-called Jewish Christians), whose views Paul in turn anathematizes!"
[Craig L. Blomberg is distinguished professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the author, co-author or co-editor of fifteen books and more than eighty articles in journals or multi-author works]
http://www.koinoniablog.net/2010/11/blombergets.html?
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