Sentences with phrase «experienced justification by faith»

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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.

At the heart of the 16th - century Reformation movement was the experience of «justification by faith» in the life of an Augustinian monk.

It is possible to date that beginning with Jonathan Edwards's preaching of justification by faith in his Northampton, Massachusetts, church in 1735, or with John Wesley's Aldersgate experience in May 1738, or with George Whitefield's momentous preaching tour of New England in September 1740.

Formulations such as «justification by faith alone» are no part of the Orthodox experience.

This is what «justification by grace through faith» tells us, in quite practical experience.