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Valiant for Truth - Justification

Book Review: The New Perspective on Paul by Kent Yinger
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In the diverse body of literature concerning the New Perspective on Paul (hereafter “NPP”), it seems as if each addition adds either clarity or confusion. The New Perspective on Paul: An Introduction, by Kent Yinger, is one of the former which introduces the topic to those less familiar in order to “make things understandable” and “relatively brief” (ix).

 
 
 
Dr. Horton on Justification
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Dr. Horton has a new essay that has just been released, "Traditional Reformed," in Justification: Five Views. In one sense, it's a bit sad that there is a "five views" book on justification. 

 
 
10 / 19 / 2011
 
 
Words and Things Part 4
S. M. Baugh

Last time, we looked at the difference between glosses and word meanings. A gloss is an English word substitute and is of concern primarily to translators, while meaning is a brief description of a word’s referent. I illustrated this difference with some rather simple nouns, but now let’s look at a more theologically rich example of the difference with a verb dear to the heart of any Protestant: “I justify” (Greek dikaioõ; pronounced: dee-kai-AH-oh).

 
 
 
Notable Quotable: Machen on the Representative Death of Christ
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Christ died that death, which the law fixes as the penalty of sin, when He died upon the cross; and since He died that death as our representative, we too have died that death

 
 
 
What Faith Is
Bryan D. Estelle

I was rereading Machen's What is Faith and came across the following quote