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Listen to John Piper talk about who he wrote The Future of Justification for (2.5 min).

[The following is an edited transcript of the audio.]

Bob Allen: John, you’ve focused quite a bit in recent years on the doctrine of justification. Now you’ve written an entire book on it, The Future of Justification.

Who is this book for? Is it for the same people who would pick up Desiring God and The Pleasures of God, or is this maybe for a different category of people?

John Piper: There’s going to be an overlap, but not everybody who has liked those books will want to read this. This book is dealing with controversy and it’s a response to a movement and a person that are fairly sophisticated. So I think the people who will come toward this book will be people who are in some way touched by the controversy surrounding justification in our day, by the New Perspective on Paul, by the role of the Law, or by the writings of N. T. Wright or James Dunn or E. P. Sanders.

That leaves out a lot of people who have read Desiring God. And I don’t in any way want to communicate that everybody should read this book. This book is written to a particular issue, a particular controversy because of how important I think it is. There will be a slice of people who will find it helpful—or at least find it provocative—and I think those are the people that are by and large the preachers and teachers and shapers of the theological lay of the land.

This is the first question in a 7-part interview that John Piper did in preparation for his forthcoming book The Future of Justification.