Sentences with phrase «with justification by faith»

Father Neuhaus charges that «these critics [assume] that baptismal regeneration is incompatible with justification by faith... [They are] prejudging the question before engaging it.»

Not exact matches

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»....

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.»

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

Here I side with John Howard Yoder against the view prevalent among social ethicists today that the early church found Jesus» sociopolitical ethics, including his teaching on peace, irrelevant and was interested in his life, death, and resurrection only as the basis for justification by faith; that whatever ethics the church taught was drawn from Hellenistic culture, particularly Stoicism.

It was exciting to see the group grasp the idea that they were faced with two options: either try to keep the whole law (which was impossible) or accept justification by faith in Jesus.

According to Catholic doctrine man can not judge his justification or his eternal salvation with absolute certainty while he is still a pilgrim, and this is ultimately not contradicted by the Protestant doctrine of justification either, despite all controversies, because in Lutheranism, too, absolute «fiducial faith» has always been attacked.

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.

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.»

Gorringe's chapter on portraiture culminates with Rembrandt, whose faces betray «an astonishing account of the doctrine of justification by faith.»

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.

But rather than debate what Luther believed, which probably would be a long and somewhat unhelpful conversation, perhaps you might simply explain to me how your view of justification by faith (whether or not it is Luther's) is not actually just another form of justification by works (with coming to a correct belief being the «work»), as I outlined above.

It is especially interesting that Luther with his sense of the persistence of sin in the redeemed, and his absolute reliance on justification by faith, still makes a rather neat distinction between those who are truly Christian and those who are not.

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.»

But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.

Human beings could not earn justification, but could only be put right with God by faith in Christ's work of atonement.3

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