John Piper writes with a scholar’s pen, but he’s driven by a pastor’s heart. He feels deeply about the purity and clarity of the gospel, yet he is gracious, deferential, and obviously respectful of N. T. Wright. Still, his clarion call of what the gospel is, needed to be sounded forth. This book is timely, insightful, balanced, and compelling. And it shows that Wright’s version of the New Perspective is, in some respects, hardly different from the Old Perspective of Rome.
Not everyone will agree with all that Piper says, but the meticulous care with which he researched Wright’s views, and the careful nuancing in his treatment of the same, are a model of Christian grace and scholarship—all motivated, at bottom, by a concern for the health of the sheep and the honor of the Master Shepherd.
Daniel B. Wallace
Professor of New Testament Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary
Executive Director, Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
Co-author of Dethroning Jesus
