{"id":12637,"date":"2018-12-20T00:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T04:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/?p=12637"},"modified":"2018-12-20T05:47:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T09:47:28","slug":"justification-in-the-second-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/2018\/12\/justification-in-the-second-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Justification in the Second Century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/a>Brian J. Arnold<\/strong><\/span>
\nJustification in the Second Century<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWaco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018.
\nAvailable at Baylor Uni Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For some reason, at ETS and SBL, random people sometimes just give\u00a0me books, usually their book. To be honest, I might browse them or flick through them, but I don\u2019t always read them. At SBL I bumped into Brian Arnold (Phoenix Seminary) who gave me a copy of his published PhD thesis on justification in the second century. I\u2019m very glad he did because it is a very interesting read.<\/p>\n

This book shows, quite definitively, that Paul was not captive to heretics and Gnostics in the second century; it ably disproves the idea that a forensic view of justification by faith alone does not have much traction in the early church fathers; and it scorches the earth on T.F. Torrance\u2019s thesis that the apostolic fathers departed from the pure Pauline notion of grace.<\/p>\n

There are great discussions of texts from Ignatius of Antioch, 1 Clement, Diognetus, Odes of Solomon, and Justin Martyr.\u00a0 Arnold highlights some of the ambiguities and complexities of the text, it not necessarily raining Paul, but I think he successfully proves that \u201cthere was continuity between Paul\u2019s teaching on justification by faith in the first century and the reception of this doctrine by Paul\u2019s immediate successors in the second century.\u201d I would quibble over a few things, I don\u2019t think Diog. 9 gives a clear articulation of imputation, at best it might be implied. And in some cases I wonder if justification language is strictly forensic or if pertains to something broader like rectification with connotations of declaring and making righteous, I\u2019m just not convinced that the church fathers were frightened of telescoping what we would call justification and sanctification. But that\u2019s for another day.<\/p>\n

I think Brian Arnold\u2019s book on justification in the second century, along with Matt Thomas\u2019s book on works of the law in the second century, are a great couple of volumes to read together, thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in Paul, Pauline reception, and development of early Christianity. Definitely worth putting on your \u201cto read\u201d list.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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