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Δικαιοσύνη Θεοῦ and N. T. Wright: Exegesis Hovering Above the Text

Dan Wallace has a new article online, examining what N.T. Wright thinks about the “righteousness of God” and what the relevant passages in Romans mean in context. In particular, Wallace looks at Rom. 1:17; 3:5; 3:21, 22, 25, 26; 10:3. With each text he summarizes Wright’s view, compares Wright’s comments with the biblical text, and then summarizes his findings.

Here are two lines from Wallace that summarize his conclusion about the success or failure of Wright’s exegesis in Romans: “it has coherence when it is not interacting with the particulars of the text, but it wreaks havoc at the lexical level for it is self-defeating.” Further, “I would view Wright’s synthesis of Romans as a brilliant failure—brilliant because of how coherent it is, but a failure because it sits three feet above the text at all points where it would be inconvenient to wrestle with what the text actually says.”

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