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"...we need to be careful not to associate a theology of merit and doctrines of reward in the world to come with attitudes of self-righteousness, uncertainty about salvation, or obsession with definition of legal practice. (157)

The New Perspective, as I have been maintaining, has tended to remove works from any positive functional role in Jewish eschatology and soteriology. Lutheran theology, however, has tended to neglect the role of works in the soteriology of the NT and has so stressed the role of faith that it has swallowed up the area of initial and final justification and excluded works from both. (119)