CONTRA WRIGHT, ROMANS TELLS US HOW INDIVIDUALS CAN BE SAVED

Here's a helpful quotation from Brian Vickers' dissertation (supervised by Schreiner) answering the proposal by N.T. Wright and various others that in Romans, Paul is not talking about how individuals are 'saved'.

If by "soteriology" one means only 'conversion,' or a detailed discussion of the mechanics of God's salvation, then I agree with Hays and Wright and affirm that this text is not about "how one becomes saved." But saying that the text is not primarily concerned with soteriology is going too far. The presence of Abraham, a former idol-worshipper who became the patriarch of Judaism, argues that soteriology is a central part of this text. The larger context also argues for a concern with soteriology in this text through the uninhibited display of the sinful condition of humanity that has resulted in God's condemnation (1:18-3:20; 3:23), and Paul's linking of forgiveness and justification with the death and resurrection of Christ (4:25). The people of God are identified explicitly as those who believe in Christ who died under the just condemnation of God in their place for their sins (3:25). An absolute separation between covenantal and soteriological themes is unwarranted. The two themes exist in harmony."
(Brian Vickers, Jesus' Blood and Righteousness, 91n53).