Sentences with phrase «by justification by faith»

As Timothy George wrote in his introduction to «The Gift of Salvation» in the December 1997 issue of Christianity Today: «We rejoice that our Roman Catholic interlocutors have been able to agree with us that the doctrine of justification set forth in this document agrees with what the Reformers meant by justification by faith alone (sola fide)... [But] this still does not resolve all the differences between our two traditions on this crucial matter.»

Not exact matches

For those who never ever heard of Jesus, and never ever had the chance their justification is by faith in God.

Concerning «getting pearls of wisdom» from research and review of original documents posted on the Internet, versus doctrinal justifications by a specific denomination which begin with enamored language, such as «most convincingly», «sublime article», «holy Christian faith», «believe and confess»....

During these same years, Luther set forth what later scholars have referred to as the formal and material principles of the Reformation, namely, the supremacy of Holy Scripture and justification by faith alone.

Among the many blessings resulting from this cooperative effort, we note especially our common affirmation of the most central truths of Christian faith, including justification by faith, in the 1997 statement, «The Gift of Salvation.»

A number of evangelical leaders with very large constituencies sharply criticized the declaration as a betrayal of the central Reformation belief in «justification by faith alone.»

Pelikan summarized the Protestant way of putting the argument: «If the Holy Trinity was just as holy as the Trinitarian dogma taught, and if original sin was as virulent as the Augustinian tradition said it was, and if Christ was as necessary as the Christological dogma implied, then the only way to treat justification in a manner faithful to the Catholic tradition was to teach justification by faith.»

The Protestant evangelical primacy of justification by faith, coupled with an overemphasis on discontinuity between the covenants, has more often than not resulted in the confusion of soteriological and ethical categories, in the end breeding among evangelicals a moral mindset devoid of both foundations and fiber.

One must also understand the Wesleyan movement as preaching a gospel of free grace that at times sounds very much like the Reformation theme of «justification by faith.»

From Merriam Webster: «a member of any of several church denominations denying the universal authority of the Pope and affirming the Reformation principles of justification by faith alone, the priesthood of all believers, and the primacy of the Bible as the only source of revealed truth; broadly: a Christian not of a Catholic or Eastern church.»

First, and fundamental, is the doctrine of justification by faith alone: we are not saved by our works.

Justification by grace through faith has been a perennial theme throughout the history of the people of God.

This is why Jesus died, to provide the atoning sacrifice through His blood, so that people who are under the wrath of God might find forgiveness and justification, not by their works, but by faith.

Second, an increasing number of feminist theologians are directing their energies toward the church's central doctrines and practices — justification by faith, the incarnation, baptism and the Eucharist.

Building on the emphasis on the individual in pietism, moving through Kant, and in this century appropriating existentialism, Lutheranism has too frequently tried to construct in the private experience of justification an area for faith that can not be touched by the challenges of modernity.

This is especially the case when it comes to the doctrine of justification by faith alone.

It's been reduced to «justification by faith.»

Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country could be described as a «Protestant» novel; it comes closer than any other novel I know to telling a story of justification by grace through faith.

Not the «core fundamentals» like the Trinity, the inerrancy of Scripture, the deity of Jesus, and justification by faith alone in Christ alone.

We used to ridicule those who talked about justification by faith because that talk seemed to be an excuse for them not to take Jesus» call to discipleship seriously.

For example, he talks about the heresies of «justification by faith alone» (p. 237), annihilationism, hyper - preterism (p. 242), Openness of God, and Religious Inclusivism (p. 281).

I think it is very shrewd of Taylor to remark that if justification by faith alone had been the sole issue, it would have been possible for Protestants and Catholics to live together in relative peace.

At one place, he lists original sin, justification by faith, and holiness; at another, repentance, faith, and holiness; and at a third, the new birth and justification by faith.

The Jewish legal system, now left behind, had once been the means by obedience to which he had sought «justification»; now faith — the whole - hearted self - committal of a man to Jesus Christ by which the entire personality is transformed — is the sole ground of any one's acceptance with God.

But if believing results in justification (as Rom 4:4 - 5 and Rom 10:10 a clearly show), then how could calling on the Lord and confessing with your mouth also result in justification since such a person is already justified by faith alone?

These doctrines were justification by faith in Christ; sanctification / Spirit - baptism as a subsequent work of grace; divine healing as part of Christ's atonement; and the literal premillennial return of Christ at the end of the church era.

Referring to the 1999 Joint Declaration of the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation, Phillip Cary («Luther at 500,» November) optimistically notes its «theological consensus that Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone need not be Church - dividing.»

Phillip Cary paraphrases point five of the preamble to the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification when he states that the signatories reached a «theological consensus that Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone need not be Church - divJustification when he states that the signatories reached a «theological consensus that Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone need not be Church - divjustification by faith alone need not be Church - dividing.»

Positively put: Justification by faith alone amounts to justification by Justification by faith alone amounts to justification by justification by Christ alone.

Ralph C. Wood regards John Updike as a writer to be «reckoned with theologically» though he finds in the novelist's recent memoirs — and in his work as a whole — more «justification by sin» then justification by faith.

If one really believes in justification by faith alone, differences over other matters — the real presence in the Eucharist, apostolic ministry, the indissolubility of marriage, the ordination of women, and on and on — make no difference.

In the same way, we don't need to put people through the whole justification by faith gauntlet to teach them to be grateful they are children of God.

Its primary theme is justification by faith.

In this line of reasoning, which has the most liberal, even antinomian, consequences, «justification by faith alone» is the only article of faith that matters.

After setting forth what Missouri understands to be the Lutheran teaching of justification by «faith alone,» the ad depicts Catholic teaching in this way: «The Roman Catholic Church teaches that something more than trust in Christ is necessary for us to be saved.

It was not an example of «justification by faith», theological jargon, which both Catholic and Lutheran understand differently with the former confused as sanctification.

Adamant about the centrality of justification by faith through grace, we sometimes verge on a perverse kind of theological works - righteousness.

any clear indication of justification by faith standing as the kernel of the Good News?

His first sermon was on «Justification by Faith.»

My Lutheran friend is pleased that Catholics and Lutherans can approve a common statement on justification by faith, but «doctrinal agreement turns out to be sheer abstraction apart from a concrete vision of the shape of the Life we are saved to live.»

«I do not believe», he once declared to me with customary irony, «in justification by faith!»

He was still in the apologetic phase of his preaching — negatively analytical and critical to break down false optimism before justification by faith took place.

Outstanding exceptions are justification by faith alone, and possibly the Protestant distaste shown towards pilgrimages and honouring the saints.

Was Luther boldly proclaiming the doctrine of justification by faith alone against Roman Catholic teaching of justification by works?

Justification by faith is... simply one detail in the soul's general religious heritage, from Christ....

Secondly, we have come to significant agreement (although surely with differences remaining) on profound theological issues: on our justification by faith through grace in Jesus Christ; on the proper relationship between Scripture and tradition; on the communion of saints and the universal call to holiness; and on the role of Mary in the life of the Christian and of the church.

All of this is based, of course, in ideas of justification by faith, of the priesthood of all believers, of direct access to God's forgiveness and mercy.

In that statement we together affirmed the way in which we understand justification by faith alone as a gift received by God's grace alone because of Christ alone.

Significantly too, it was in this context — as an answer to the social problem of relations between the circumcised and the uncircumcised in the church and not as a solution to individual guilt and fear of judgment — that Paul first wrote the formula, «justification by faith and not by the works of the law» (Galatians 2:16).

Confessional Lutherans rightly insist on the centrality of the doctrine of justification by grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone.