NTWright JustificationWeek2

The Doctrine of Justification in the Work of N. T.
Wright
By William N. Wilder Center for Christian Study Week 2
Adam, Israel, Servant, Christ: Dos Covenant Theology Get it Wright?
Overview of the Series

1. I Love to Tell the Story: The Narrative Substructure of Pauls Theology 2. Adam, Israel, Servant, Christ: Does Covenant Theology Get It Wright? 3. To Whom It Belongs: The Dis Imputed Righteousness of God 4. The Importance of Definition: Righteousness, Justification, Faith & Works
Copyright 2005 William N. Wilder
A Map to Pauls Thought World

According to N.T. Wright
The Creator God Chose Israel Monotheism Election
To Be a Blessing to the World Eschatology
with the help of the law
(Covenantal Nomism)
This is the patternor the storylineof Pauls thought prior to his conversion. DAMASCUS ROAD ENCOUNTER
WITH
CRUCIFIED AND RESURRECTED
LORD
The GOSPEL: Proclamation of Crucified, Risen King and Lord This means everything is different now!
Monotheism Redefined
Election Redefined
covenant membership law
Eschatology Redefined
court eschatology
1. Righteousness of God 2. Justification

Chart by William N. Wilder
A Map to Pauls Thought World

According to N.T. Wright
The Creator God Chose Israel Monotheism Election
Chose Israel
To Be a Blessing to the World Eschatology
WITH
Election
(Covenantal Nomism)
LORD
Election Redefined
court eschatology
1. Righteousness of God 2. Justification

Chart by William N. Wilder
Adam, Israel, Servant, Christ:

Does Covenant Theology Get It Wright?
Adam Disobedience
Breach of Gods law in the Garden
Christ Obedience
Death on the cross
(Passive Obedience)
The Structure of Covenant Theology

Fulfillment of the law
(Active Obedience)
Curse
Imputation of Adams sin to mankind
Blessing
Imputation of churchs sin to Christ
Humanity
1. Original Sin
New Humanity
Imputation of Christs righteousness to his church
2. Substitutionary Atonement
3. Justification by Faith
Homily on the Salvation of Mankind: For the more full understanding hereof {i.e., of our perfect and full Adam justification}, it is our parts and duty ever to remember the great mercy of GOD, Disobedience how that (all the world Breach of being wrapped in sin byGods law in the breaking of the Law) GOD Garden sent his only son our Savior Curse Christ into this world, toImputation of by fulfill the Law for us, and Adams sin to shedding of his most mankind precious blood, to make a sacrifice and Humanityor satisfaction, 1. Original (as it may be called) Sin amends to his Father for our sins, to assuage his wrath and indignation conceived against us for the same.
Christ Obedience
Death on the cross
(Passive Obedience)

(Active Obedience)
Blessing
New Humanity
HSM: our justification doth come freely by the mere mercy of GOD that whereas all the world was not ableto pay any part towards their ransom, it Homily on the Salvation of pleased our heavenly Father, to prepare for us the most precious jewels of The Structure Mankind: For the more full Christs body and blood, understanding hereof {i.e., whereby our ransom might be fully paid, the law of Covenant fulfilled, and his justice fully satisfied. So that Christ is now the righteousness of of our perfect and full Adam Christ all that truly do believe justification}, it is our parts in him. Hee for them paid their ransom by his death. Hee Theology for them fulfilled the Law in his life. So that now in him, and by him, every true and duty ever to remember Christian man GOD, of the Law, forasmuch as that which their the great mercy of may be called a fulfillerObedience Disobedience howinfirmity lacked, Christs justice hath supplied. Fulfillment that (all the world Breach of Death on the
being wrapped in sin byGods law in the breaking of the Law) GOD Garden sent his only son our Savior Curse Christ into this world, toImputation of by fulfill the Law for us, and Adams sin to shedding of his most mankind precious blood, to make a sacrifice and Humanityor satisfaction, 1. Original (as it may be called) Sin amends to his Father for our sins, to assuage his wrath and indignation conceived against us for the same.
cross
(Passive Obedience)
of the law
(Active Obedience)
Blessing
New Humanity
Adam Disobedience
Christ
Curse
Humanity
1. Original Sin
and sacrifice of Himself, which He, Obedience through the eternal Death on the Fulfillment cross of the law Spirit, once offered (Passive (Active up unto God, hath Obedience) Obedience) fully satisfied the Blessing justice of His Imputation of Imputation of Father;(1) and churchs sin Christs to Christ righteousness to purchased, not New his church only reconciliation, Humanity but an everlasting inheritance in the 3. Justification by 2. Substitutionary Faith Atonement kingdom of heaven, for all those whom the Father hath given unto Him.(2)
The Structure WCF 8.5 The of Covenant Lord Jesus, by His perfect obedience Theology
Covenants of Works
Adam
Covenant of Creation
Covenant of Redemption
Christ

(Active Obedience)
Disobedience
Obedience
Death on the cross
(Passive Obedience)
Curse
Blessing
Humanity
1. Original Sin
New Humanity
Covenant of Works
Covenant of Grace Bicovenantalism

WCF 7.3 Man, by his fall, Covenants of Works having made himself The Structure uncapable of life by that Covenant Covenant of of Covenant of Redemption covenant, the Lord was Adam Creation Christ pleased to make a Theology second, commonly called Disobedience Obedience the Covenant of Grace, whereby He freely offereth Death on the Fulfillment Breach of WCF 7.2 The first Gods law cross of the law unto sinners life and (Passive (Active in the covenant made with salvation by Jesus Christ, Obedience) Obedience) Garden man was a covenant Blessing requiring of them faith in Curseof works, wherein life Him, that they may be Imputation Imputation of Imputation of was promised to sin saved; and promising to of Adams churchs Christs sin to to Christ righteousness unto all those that are Adam, and in him to give to mankind New his church his posterity, upon ordained unto eternal life condition of perfectHumanity His Holy Spirit, to make Humanity and personal them willing, and able to 1. Original 3. Justification by 2. Substitutionary obedience. Cf. WCF 19.1 Sin Faith Atonement believe. Cf. WSC 20 Covenant of Works Covenant of Grace WLC 31 With whom was the covenant of grace made? A. The covenant of grace was made with Christ as the second Adam, and in him with all the elect as his seed.
Adam
Israel
Christ
The WCF does not exclude views of Disobedience the Mosaic covenant Obedience Death on the Fulfillment Breach of that saw an aspect of the cross Gods law of the law (Passive (Active in the Mosaic covenant that saw Obedience) Obedience) Garden an aspect illustrative of the Blessing Curse works-inheritance principle Imputation Imputation of in it, subservient to its Imputation of WCF 7.6 There are of Adams churchs sin Christs sin to position as an administrationto Christ righteousness to not therefore two mankind his church New covenants of grace of the covenant of grace. This was a quite common Humanity differing in Humanity viewpoint. Rowland 2. Substitutionary 1. Original 3. Justification by substance, but one Sin Atonement Faith Ward, Adam & and the same Christ under various Covenant of Works Covenant of Grace dispensations. Israel Church
Covenant of Works Israel
Covenant of Grace Church
Covenant of Works Israel Covenant of Grace Church

The Creator God Chose Israel
Monotheism Election
(Covenantal Nomism)
WITH
To Be a Blessing to the World

Eschatology
LORD
Election Redefined
court eschatology
1. Righteousness of God

Monotheism Election
(Covenantal Nomism) covenantal

Eschatology
PJs Where Sanders sees contrast.. Pauls
WITH
nomism
versus
LORD
The GOSPEL: Proclamation of Crucified, Risen King and Lord
participationist
eschatology
This means everything is different now!
Election Redefined
court
eschatology
1. Righteousness of God
Covenant of Works
Wright sees continuity!

Israel Covenant of Grace Church
Monotheism Election Election

Eschatology Eschatology
WITH
nomism
versus
LORD
eschatology participationist This means everything is different now! (juridical)

Election Redefined
Election Redefined
court eschatology
Covenant membership
1. Righteousness Law court of GodEschatology
So far this might just be a further elaboration of the traditional Reformed emphasis on the continuity between Israel and the church. But what about Adam and the covenant of works?
Heres the key: For NTW Christs role as the Last Adam is understood in light of his fulfillment of Israels vocation! Israel itself is the second Adam intended to redeem the world. Jesus takes on the Adamic role as it has been redefined in Israel! So what does this mean for Christs obedience?


WITH
nomism
versus
LORD

Election Redefined
Election Redefined
court eschatology
Covenant membership
X
Israel Covenant of Grace Church
What is the main point about the Messiah's faithfulness, or obedience (Rom 5)? Both Philippians 2 and Romans 1-8 give the answer: the Messiah's sacrificial death. The Messiah has done through His death what Israel was called to do in the first place; His death has made the atonement through which the nations are redeemed. He has acted on behalf of Israel for the whole world. The cross of the Messiah lies at the heart of election."
(Auburn Conference, Day 2, Session 6: Tim Gallant's notes)
Covenant of Works


WITH
nomism
versus
LORD

Election Redefined
Election Redefined
court eschatology
Covenant membership
What is the main point about the Messiah's faithfulness, or obedience (Rom 5)? Both Philippians 2 and Romans 1-8 give the answer: the Messiah's sacrificial death. The Messiah has done through His death what Israel was called to do in the first place; His death has made the atonement through which the nations are redeemed. He has acted on behalf of Israel for the whole world. The cross of the Messiah lies at the heart of election."
(Auburn Conference, Day 2, Session 6: Tim Gallant's notes at www.RabbiSaul.com)
What does Paul suppose the Messiah was obedient to? A long tradition within one strand of Reformation thought has supposed that Paul was here referring to Jesus perfect obedience to the law. In this view, Christs active obedience and his passive obedience work together. His active obedience acquires righteousness, which is then reckoned to those in Christ; his passive obedience, culminating in the cross, deals with his peoples sins. Powerful though this thought is, and influential though it has been (even in liturgy, where the merits and death of Christ are sometimes mentioned in this double sense), it is almost certainly not what Paul has in mind here. The Isaianic servant, to whom reference is being made, was obedient to the saving purpose of YHWH, the plan marked out for Israel from the beginning but that, through Israels disobedience, only the servant, as an individual, can now accomplish. The obedience of the Messiah in 5:19 therefore corresponds closely to the faithfulness of the Messiah in 3:22. It refers to his obedience to Gods commission (as in 3:2), to the plan to bring salvation to the world, rather than amassing a treasury of merit through Torah obedience. Obedience to the law would be beside the point; the law has a different, and much darker, function in the argument than is often supposed. That indeed is the subject of the next verse (NIB Romans, p. 529).
To what, then, is Christ obedient

in Covenant Theology?
Adams Disobedience
Adamic administration: Covenant of Works Israel A covenant of works
WCF 7.2 The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works, (1) wherein life was promised to Adam, and in him to his posterity, (2) upon condition of perfect and personal obedience.(3)
Christs Obedience
Abrahamic covenant Mosaic law
Covenant of Grace Church Works principle

(1)Gal. 3:12. (2)Rom. 10:5; Rom. 5:12-20. (3)Gen. 2:17; Gal. 3:10.
To what, then, is Christ obedient

in NTW Theology?
Adams Disobedience
An anticipation of Israels disobedience and exile from the land
Christs Obedience
Abrahamic covenant Gods commission to bring salvation to the world
Mosaic law
Intended to heap up sin in one place so that the Messiah can deal with it

So which is the controlling story?

Is it the story of Adam in Gen 13, understood as a covenant of works, elaborated perhaps by the national story of Israel under the Mosaic law? Or is it the story of Israel, the proper answer to the story of Adam, but with its own meaning and purpose revealed in the Abrahamic covenant and summed up in the mysterious vocation of the Servant?
Adams Disobedience
Adamic administration: Covenant of Works Israel A covenant of works
Christs Obedience
Abrahamic covenant Mosaic law
Adams Disobedience
An anticipation of Israels disobedience and exile from the land
Church
Christs Obedience
Abrahamic covenant Gods commission to bring salvation to the world
Mosaic law
Covenant of Grace
Works principle
(1)Gal. 3:12. (2)Rom. 10:5; Rom. 5:12-20. (3)Gen. 2:17; Gal. 3:10.
Intended to heap up sin in one place so that the Messiah can deal with it
WCF 7.2 The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works, (1) wherein life was promised to Adam, and in him to his posterity, (2) upon condition of perfect and personal obedience.(3)
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The Doctrine of Justification in the Work of N. T.

Overview of the Series

Copyright 2005 William N. Wilder

A Map to Pauls Thought World

The Creator God Chose Israel Monotheism Election

To Be a Blessing to the World Eschatology

with the help of the law

CRUCIFIED AND RESURRECTED

1. Righteousness of God 2. Justification

A Map to Pauls Thought World

The Creator God Chose Israel Monotheism Election

To Be a Blessing to the World Eschatology

CRUCIFIED AND RESURRECTED

1. Righteousness of God 2. Justification

Adam, Israel, Servant, Christ:

The Structure of Covenant Theology

Imputation of Christs righteousness to his church

Copyright 2005 William N. Wilder

The Structure of Covenant Theology

Imputation of Christs righteousness to his church

Copyright 2005 William N. Wilder

Imputation of Christs righteousness to his church

Copyright 2005 William N. Wilder

Copyright 2005 William N. Wilder

The Structure of Covenant Theology

Imputation of Christs righteousness to his church

Covenant of Grace Bicovenantalism

Covenant of Works Israel

Covenant of Grace Church

Copyright 2005 William N. Wilder

Covenant of Works Israel Covenant of Grace Church

To Be a Blessing to the World

with the help of the law

CRUCIFIED AND RESURRECTED

Copyright 2005 William N. Wilder

Covenant of Works Israel Covenant of Grace Church

To Be a Blessing to the World

PJs Where Sanders sees contrast.. Pauls

with the help of the law

CRUCIFIED AND RESURRECTED

This means everything is different now!

Copyright 2005 William N. Wilder

Wright sees continuity!

To Be a Blessing to the World

PJs Where Sanders sees contrast.. Pauls

with the help of the law

CRUCIFIED AND RESURRECTED

eschatology participationist This means everything is different now! (juridical)

1. Righteousness Law court of GodEschatology

Covenant of Works Israel Covenant of Grace Church

Wright sees continuity!

To Be a Blessing to the World

PJs Where Sanders sees contrast.. Pauls

with the help of the law

CRUCIFIED AND RESURRECTED

eschatology participationist This means everything is different now! (juridical)

1. Righteousness Law court of GodEschatology

Wright sees continuity!

To Be a Blessing to the World

PJs Where Sanders sees contrast.. Pauls

with the help of the law

CRUCIFIED AND RESURRECTED