Sentences with phrase «justification by faith through»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Consider James Talmage, a very important Mormon figure who said, «The sectarian dogma of justification by faith alone has exercised an influence for evil,» (Articles, p. 432), and «Hence the justice of the scriptural doctrine that salvation comes to the individual only through obedience,» (Articles, p. 81).

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.

It is in this context that Paul says much about the natural man being «in sin,» until its burden is lifted and victory is won through justification by faith in Jesus Christ.

In these terms, we intended to affirm nothing less than «justification by grace alone because of Christ alone through faith alone,» which is the biblical Gospel.

According to the statement, there is no consensus on justification through the word of God and «by faith alone,» no consensus on the certitude of faith concerning our salvation, no consensus on the continuing sinfulness of the justified, nor on the importance of good works for our salvation, nor on the function of the doctrine of justification as criterion of the entire life and doctrine of the church.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church does not reject the distinctive Reformation formula that justification is by grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone.

There is a difference between justification through faith in the sight of God and justification by works in the sight of man.

Justification in the sight of man by way of sanctification or becoming ever more like Christ is a process which has the potential of saving others.; this by exemplifying through faith in action that faith alone in the blood of Christ alone saves you, this on the hope of attracting believers from faith to faith in action and unbelievers first to faith and salvation and then to faith in action, paying it forward, growing His Kingdom.

He was so insistent on justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, that he had trouble reconciling these truths with the teachings of James.

In my Luther the familiar theological topics make an appearance: justification by grace through faith (which is linked with one of his favorite images, that of a «joyful exchange» of identities with Christ); the forgiveness of sins; the authority of the Word; the human as «sinner and at the same time justified.»

The theological term for this Christian assertion is «justification by grace through faith.»

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

Leave aside the question of whether or not it's true that justification is by grace alone through faith alone.

With respect to salvation through justification by the faith we are Lutherans.