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This book investigates the relationship between justification by
faith and final judgment according to works as found in Paul's
second epistle to the Corinthians within a Protestant theological
framework. Benjamin M. Dally first demonstrates the diversity and
breadth of mainstream Protestant soteriology and eschatology
beginning at the time of the Reformation by examining the
confessional standards of its four primary ecclesial/theological
streams: Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, and Anglican. The
soteriological structure of each is assessed (i.e., how each
construes the relationship between justification and final
judgment), with particular attention given to how each speaks of
the place of good works at the final judgment. This initial
examination outlines the theological boundaries within which the
exegesis of Second Corinthians can legitimately proceed, and
illuminates language and conceptual matrices that will be drawn
upon throughout the remainder of thebook. Then, drawing upon the
narrative logic of Paul's Early Jewish thought-world, Dally
examines the text of Second Corinthians to discern its own
soteriological framework, paying particular attention to both the
meaning and rhetorical function of the "judgment according to
works" motif as it is utilized throughout the letter. The book
concludes by offering a Protestant synthesis of the relationship
between justification and final judgment according to works in
Second Corinthians, giving an explanation of the role of works at
the final judgment that arguably alleviates a number of tensions
often perceived in other readings devoted to this key aspect of
Pauline exegesis and theology. Dally ultimately argues a three-fold
thesis: (1) For the believer one's earthly conduct, taken as a
whole, is best spoken of in the language of inferior/secondary
"cause" and/or "basis" as far as its import at the last judgment.
(2) One's earthly conduct, again taken as a whole, is
soteriologically necessary (not solely, but secondarily
nonetheless) and not simply of importance for the bestowal of
non-soteriological, eschatological rewards. (3) There are crucial
resources from within mainstream Protestantism to authorize such
ways of speaking and to simultaneously affirm these contentions in
conjunction with a robust, strictly forensic/imputational,
"traditional" Protestant understanding of the doctrine of
justification by faith alone.
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