just over a year after John Piper published his response to N.T. Wright's position on justification, Wright has penned a response to Piper and his (Wright's) other critics. it will be released in the UK on 19 feb 09!
meanwhile, i have started reading Piper's The Future of Justification. regardless if Piper or Wright (or neither of them) proves to be right - and it is not about scoring points, it will be hugely beneficial to follow the ongoing discourse between these two giants of the faith on the future of justification.
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We all wear coloured glasses - most wear glasses coloured by tradition; some wear glasses coloured by anti-tradition; and some wear glasses coloured by our emerging, new reconstruction of reality. Which of these ways of seeing the world is more seductive, I don't know. Since they exist in differing degrees, from one time to the next, probably any of them can be overpowering at a given moment.
I love the gospel and justification that I have seen in my study and preaching over the last forty years. N.T. Wright loves the gospel and justification he has seen in that same time. My temptation is to defend a view because it has been believed for centuries. His temptation is to defend a view because it fits so well into his new way of seeing the world.
Public traditions and private systems are both very powerful. We are agreed, however, that neither conformity to an old tradition nor conformity to a new system is the final arbiter of truth. Scripture is. And we both take courage from the fact that Scripture has the power to force its own colour through any human lens.
- John Piper, The Future of Justification
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