Subject: New Perspective of Sha'ul |
Bible Note: Dear MJH, As I am not antinomian, I wouldn't be adequate to the task of rendering an answer that would properly represent their position. The New Perspective folks argue that the Pharisaic view of soteriology has been misrepresented by Christians, particularly since the Reformation. Championed most notably by N. T. Wright, the assertion is that the Pharisees were not legalistic after all, and that they did not espouse a form of auto-soterism. This is the first of a number of challenges they make to orthodoxy. The shifts in fundamental thinking enables them to reinterpret Christ's teaching with regard to the Pharisees in general, and Paul's teaching in particular. A crooked foundation always results in a crooked building (Psalm 125:5). In Him, Doc |