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Today we will look at the second phase of the New Perspective on Paul. The first phase is the work of E.P. Sanders in 1977. The second phase was the work of Jimmy Dunn, and that began in 1982 and came to full fruition with his pumpkin book, The Theology of the Apostle Paul<\/a><\/em>, in 2000<\/strike>1998.
\nDunn basically agrees with Sanders on Judaism: election-based, covenant-shaped relationship for Israel with God to whom God gives the Torah to know how to live as God\u2019s people.
\nWhere Dunn shifted things was with Paul, and he argued at first that Paul\u2019s problem with his Judaizing opponents (not the same as \u201cJudaism\u201d as a whole) was that they were constructing a nation-based righteousness, a nationalistic righteousness, that kept Gentiles out because it was simply a nation\u2019s faith.
\nOver time Jimmy shifted his language to the \u201csociological markers\u201d of a community so that \u201cworks of the Torah\u201d were not \u201cmerit-seeking works\u201d but \u201cboundary-marking works.\u201d That is, the Judaizers were trying to make the Gentile Christians become Jews. The \u201cworks of the Law,\u201d then, were not merit-shaped works but specific things like sabbath, food laws and circumcision. Think concretely, Jimmy was asking us to do, when we get to this expression \u201cworks of the Law.\u201d Avoid thinking of the expression the way Augustine and Luther and Calvin do.
\nFor Paul, one was a member of the Church, the people of God, by faith and not by works (by adhering to such things as circumcision, sabbath, and food laws \u2014 the works that separated Jews from Gentiles). So, Paul\u2019s idea of faith was the way all people \u2014 Jews and Gentiles \u2014 could gain access to and enjoy the saving work of God in Christ.
\nFundamentally, Paul\u2019s mission was to form a new people of God, the Church, on the basis of faith and because it was by faith and not works (boundary markers) it was a people of God that could include Jews and Gentiles. Justification was God\u2019s work of declaring and making righteous those who had faith in Jesus Christ; one might say then that justification was declaring who was the people of God.
\nMuch more could be said, but our focus this week is on the core issues that are causing a stir for so many.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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