Justification by Faith

Yoder’s celebrated book, The Politics of Jesus, provoked both controversey and excitement w/in evangelical theology - and we’re still discussing his ideas 30 + years later. Though his focus is on Jesus and the Gospels, Yoder considers the relationship of his interpretation of Jesus’ teachings to Paul, and particularly to the doctrine of justification. In so doing, he anticipates many of the arguments of the so-called New Perspective (which though rooted in scholarship that predates Yoder, really didn’t percolate for another decade, when scholars such as James Dunn first began to articulate their ‘new’ perspective). But a lot of the same questions still remain for me…