Be The Fruit

Trevin Wax interviews N. T. Wright about his upcoming book.

by Bill Blair on 13/01/09 at 7:48 am

Trevin Wax released his latest interview today with N. T. Wright about his new book he wrote.  The new book is the latest in the current debate about justification.  Much of this debate has taken place between N. T. Wright and John Piper.  Below is an excerpt of the interview:

Trevin Wax: What is at stake in this debate over justification? If one were to adopt Piper’s view instead of yours, what would they be missing?

N.T. Wright: What’s missing is the big, Pauline picture of God’s gospel going out to redeem the whole world, all of creation, with ourselves as part of that.

What’s missing is the big, Pauline view of the church, Jew and Gentile on equal footing, as the sign to the powers of the world that Jesus is Lord and they aren’t.

What’s missing is the key work of the Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do ‘please God’ as Paul says again and again (but as Reformed theology is shy of lest it smack of smuggling in works-righteousness again).

What’s missing is an insistence on Scripture itself rather than tradition . . .

Check out the full interview here.