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Some time ago, John Robbins put my name in a list of theologians influenced by Daniel Fuller and John Piper. (I was in the good company of John Frame, Dick Gaffin, and others, so I was actually honored.) The funny thing was, that I had read almost nothing of either Fuller or Piper. So I could live up to Robbins\u2019s charge, though, I decided to read Fuller\u2019s work on gospel and law. <\/p>\n
Having now read a chunk of Fuller\u2019s book, I\u2019ve found it stirring. I don\u2019t agree with everything in Fuller\u2019s chapter on Paul\u2019s view of the law, but in many respects I found it wonderful. His point that our salvation is not by our works because God <\/em> is the Workman is one of those insights that leaves you breathless, both with the obviousness of it and with its infinite ramifications. Dittos for his point that the Mosaic law, just as much as Paul, urged Israel to produce the \u201cobedience of faith.\u201d And his unpacking of how faith is implicated in all obedience to the commandments of God is superb. <\/p>\n All of which is to retroactively admit that I suppose I belong on Robbins\u2019s list after all. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some time ago, John Robbins put my name in a list of theologians influenced by Daniel Fuller and John Piper. (I was in the good company of John Frame, Dick Gaffin, and others, so I was actually honored.) The funny thing was, that I had read almost nothing of either Fuller or Piper. So I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology-soteriology"],"yoast_head":"\n