Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

On controversy -- Caution : not all biblical-theological methods and categories are illuminating -- The relationship between covenant and law-court imagery for justification -- The law-court dynamics of justification and the meaning of God's righteousness -- The law-court dynamics of justification and the necessity of real moral righteousness -- Justification and the gospel when is the Lordship of Jesus good news? -- Justification and the gospel : does justification determine our standing with God? -- The place of our works in justification -- Does Wright say with different words what the Reformed tradition means by imputed righteousness? -- Paul's structural continuity with Second-Temple Judaism -- The implications for justification of the single self-righteous root of ethnic badges and self-help moralism -- That we might become in Him the righteousness of God.