‘Righteousness is that attribute by which God’s nature is seen to be the eternally perfect standard of what is right. It is closely related to God’s holiness (or moral perfection), on one hand, and to God’s moral law or will as an expression of his holiness, on the other hand. Even though there is no distinction between righteousness and justice in the biblical vocabulary, theologians often use the former to refer to the attribute of God in himself and the latter to refer to the actions of God with respect to his creation.…