Sentences with phrase «doctrine of justification»

I think that I have thus presented the Catholic doctrine of justification, briefly, it is true, but without having left out anything really essential.

My point is not to develop a new doctrine of justification.

Thus, faith is significant for salvation not only inasmuch as it implies trusting that God will forgive us for Christ's sake, as the Lutheran doctrine of justification has it.

D. F. E. Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1928), and Albrecht Ritschl, The Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1900), are major works in modern theology.

Jones unabashedly puts secular feminist theory to «church work,» using it to remap the core Reformed doctrines of justification and sanctification, sin and ecclesiology.

Hence the Catholic doctrine of justification does not profess a semi-Pelagian synergism according to which salvation would be divided up into God's gracious act and the independent free act of man.

Jenson is to be commended, however, for noting the difference between Luther's teaching on justification» a teaching that focused on the unity of the soul with Christ in the act of faith» and a purely forensic doctrine of justification.

And... if Jesus was sinful... then, entire doctrines of justification and resurrection can be erased from the Bible.

Reumann outlines the historical hardening of theological categories between Lutherans and Catholics arising out of the Reformation doctrine of justification by faith, and the convergence toward a common understanding on justification and related doctrines through Lutheran - Catholic dialogues over the past thirty years.

How has it become possible in 1997 to achieve a Joint Declaration on the controverted doctrine of justification?

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.»

Hampson's focus (here her own theological interests come to the fore) is anthropological, and for her the Lutheran doctrine of justification is above all a doctrine about what it means to be human.

20) A. Ritschl, The Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation 3rd ed.

But this understanding of the doctrine of justification is not peculiar to Lutherans.

Indeed, Luther can quite straightforwardly identify the doctrine of justification with the Christological dogma of the ancient Church, as he does in his Sermons on John 6:

For example, many churches of the ILC feel the doctrine of justification needs additional discussion beyond the work accomplished in the landmark LWF - Catholic document Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.

At a meeting in the fall of 1996, it was determined that further progress depended upon firm agreement on the meaning of salvation, and especially the doctrine of justification.

The Pauline - Augustinian message of grace found expression in the doctrine of justification by faith alone — not «alone» in the sense of being divorced from a life of holiness and love, but «alone» in the sense of unmerited, «apart from the works of the law.»

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

The «Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification» has just celebrated its fifth anniversary with a variety of local, national, and international festivities.

Indeed the kind of Protestantism that fades into abstraction owes much to Lutheranism for its peculiar tendency to reduce the whole of the Christian faith to the doctrine of justification.

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

In The Role of Justification in Contemporary Theology, the Lutheran theologian Mark C. Mattes goes beyond the controversy surrounding the joint declaration itself to describe and assess the place of the doctrine of justification in five prominent Protestant theologians: Eberhard Jüngel, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jürgen Moltmann, Robert W. Jenson, and Oswald Bayer.

Mattes» engaging and vigorous book demonstrates how elusive the doctrine of justification is» not only for the purposes of ecumenical dialogue but also within Protestant theology.

Unlike the Lutheran - Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification issued earlier this year, this statement is not the result of an officially sponsored dialogue, but the collaborative work of individuals who speak from and to, but not for, our several communities.

This implies that the doctrine of justification, i.e. the sola gratia, is no reason for the separation of the Churches today.

But I hope that the doctrine of justification need no longer separate us today.

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 - dividing.»

He was one of the most prominent academic defenders in Germany of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, the 1999 agreement on the doctrine of justification between the Catholic Church and the churches of the Lutheran World Federation that was violently attacked by a significant portion of his colleagues.

At this point it becomes clear that the meaning of the doctrine of justification as the center of the teaching and life of the Church has been ineffectual in these texts.»

Paul's doctrine of justification, therefore, had far more to do with Jewish - Gentile issues than with questions of the individual's status before God.»

Bruce McCormack started from the same point in his brilliant essay on the role of justification in Protestant theology, an essay which is mandatory reading for those wishing to understand what's at stake over the doctrine of justification.

I am happy to see Kevin's excellent post and essay on the doctrine of justification.

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

But isn't the idea of Purgatory contrary to the doctrine of justification by grace alone through faith alone?

There is no mention in the theses of the doctrine of justification.

Luther struggled over the doctrine of justification by faith.

Just a few months before his 80th birthday, Jaroslav Pelikan has published yet another major project — editing, in collaboration with Valerie Hotchkiss, a collection of the creeds and confessions of the Christian tradition from its beginnings up through the Lutheran - Roman Catholic 1999 joint declaration on the doctrine of justification.

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

Yet this year Lutheran and Roman Catholic theologians issued an official proposal for a Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.

The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification by the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church is available as part of Ecumenical Proposals: Lutheran - Episcopal, Lutheran - Reformed, and Lutheran - Roman Catholic, from Augsburg Fortress (tel. [phone], order code # 69 - 3092; $ 1 plus postage and handling.)

And it was this doctrine, in turn based on the doctrine of justification by faith, which made it possible for Luther and Calvin to say what it means to live the Christian life of service to the God of love in the midst of the tragic necessities of this world.16

Such faith is basic to the doctrine of justification by faith, which was first spelled out by Paul and never stated by Jesus in theological terms, yet was presupposed in all he said about the kingdom of God.

In «Ungenuine and Gratuitous» (Public Square, March), Richard John Neuhaus takes «some Baptists» to task for their criticism of the Evangelical - Catholic «Gift of Salvation» statement, which seeks to articulate a doctrine of justification by faith that is acceptable to both parties.