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New or Nuanced Perspective on Calvin?
Johnson, Marcus
Johnson, Marcus
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"Thomas Wenger’s recent article in JETS has provided the service of bringing to the fore some significant and even perennial issues relating to the heart of Protestant soteriology.1 His concerns are weighty in that they deal with bedrock doctrinal convictions that undergird basic Protestant beliefs about salvation—that is, justification, sanctification, union with Christ, and the relationship between them (ordo salutis). As such, his concerns are important and commendable. Wenger’s more specific concern has to do with the alleged misappropriation of these basic soteriological doctrines by those in a group he labels the “New Perspective on Calvin.” Because this strain of Reformation scholarship has subsumed Calvin’s soteriology under the rubric of union with Christ, they have jettisoned the “traditional understanding of Calvin’s theology” and have proposed a “realigning of Calvin’s doctrines of justification and sanctification.” Wenger’s claim is that for various reasons— methodological, historiographical, and exegetical—this reading of Calvin, which overstresses the importance of the union with Christ, is “an unfair one.”2 The commendation of Wenger’s interests and concerns aside (after all, response articles are not primarily laudatory so much as critical), in this article I want to redress a number of Wenger’s criticisms in the order in which they were presented"
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2008
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