Hurling Bible Verses
Hurling Bible verses at one another simply was not getting the job done. The shift to a two-stage model reflects the realization that the debate was fundamentally an argument over the meaning of the biblical terms themselves, and this realization demanded a model which could explain, rather than simply restate, the key passages to which both sides appealed.
David Fink, Divided by Faith: The Protestant Doctrine of Justification and the Confessionalization of Biblical Exegesis (Durham, NC: Duke University, 2012), 51