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Counterpoints: Bible and Theology
Four Views on the Role of Works
at the Final Judgment
Alan P. Stanley, General Editor
Four Views on the Role of Works at the Final Judgment takes up the age old question: What must I
do to be saved? Four leading scholars discuss the degree to which one’s works are considered at
the final judgment.
Contributors and views include:
• Robert N. Wilkin: Works will determine rewards but not salvation—At the Judgment Seat of
Christ each believer will be judged by Christ to determine his eternal rewards, but he remains
eternally secure even if the judgment reveals he failed to persevere in good works (or in faith).
• Thomas R. Schreiner: Works will provide evidence that one actually has been saved—At the final
judgment works provide the necessary condition, though not the ground for final salvation, in
that they provide evidence as to whether one has actually trusted in Jesus Christ.
• James D. G. Dunn: Works will provide the criterion by which Christ will determine eternal destiny
of his people—Since Paul, Jesus, and the New Testament writers hold together “justification by
faith and not by works” with “judgment according to works,” we should not fall into the trap of
playing one off against the other or blending them in a way that diminishes the force of each.
• Michael P. Barber: Works will merit eternal life—At the final judgment, good works will be
rewarded with eternal salvation. However, these good works will be meritorious not apart from
Christ but precisely because of the union of the believer with him.
Alan P. Stanley (PhD, Dallas Theological Seminary) is lecturer in biblical studies at Crossway
College, Brisbane Australia, since 2003.
Robert N. Wilkin (PhD, Dallas Theological Seminary) is president and founder of Grace
Evangelical Society.
Thomas R. Schreiner (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is James Buchanan Harrison Professor
of New Testament and associate dean of Scripture and interpretation at The Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
James D. G. Dunn (PhD, University of Cambridge) is a leading British New Testament scholar and
was for many years the Lightfoot Professor of Divinity in the department of theology at the University
of Durham.
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Michael P. Barber (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is the professor of theology, Scripture and
Catholic thought at John Paul the Great Catholic University in San Diego and a research fellow for the
St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.
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