Here, in his first point, the writer holds N. T. Wright up to a standard that seems quite patently contrary to the Westminster Confession of Faith. But even if the writer’s standard of what counts as an orthodox and Biblical definition of faith were correct, does he show any evidence that Wright has violated it? Here is his evidence:

A noteworthy example is N.T. Wright’s comment on Romans 1:17, where he explains Paul’s statement that “the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith.” Wright says, “When God’s action in fulfillment of the covenant is unveiled, it is because God is faithful to what has been promised; when it is received, it is received by that human faith that answers to the revelation of God in Jesus Christ, that human faith is also faithfulness to the call of God in Jesus the Messiah” (Romans, 425). Here, faith is defined as faithfulness. One of Paul’s burdens in Romans is to distinguish between faith as trusting belief on the one hand and meritorious works on the other. Paul writes, “Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness” (Rom. 4:4-5). Justifying faith is, for Paul, trust apart from works. Works follow, but faith is distinct from works. The distinction Paul carefully makes, Wright carefully blurs by redefining faith as faithfulness.

This seems to me to be, to say the least, a strained interpretation. Wright has not, in the quotations given above, said that faith is actually some number of works of faithfulness. All he has said is that when one is confronted with the Gospel, one is supposed to believe it. When one hears how God has been faithful in Christ, one ought to trust him. Wright isn’t redefining faith as faithfulness, but the exact opposite. He is saying the only thing God can or will recognize as a faithful response to his message is to believe it and trust oneself to Him. Wright is defining faithfulness as faith. Any response other than faith, other than believing the Gospel, would be unfaithful.

I don’t see the problem.