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Two Languages of Salvation: The Lutheran-Catholic Joint Declaration.
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Issues discussed concern the history of the Catholic and Lutheran Church's position on the concept of salvation and justification. Topics addressed include the forgiveness of sin, the conflicting teachings of the churches, and the Lutheran-Catholic Joint Declaration of 1998.
One of the central themes of the New Testament, if not the central theme, is the way. to obtain salvation. To be on the right road is, in New Testament terminology, to be justified. The corollary is that unles...
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; Justification has been a point of contention between Roman Catholics and Lutherans ever since the Reformation. Both would admit that justification is first and foremost a gift of God, by grace. However, in an effort both to safeguard human autonomy and to be true to the whole of the scriptural
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Justification and deification--problematic synthesis: a response to Lucian Turcescu.(Eastern Orthodox theology)
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
; By entering sympathetically into the Lutheran emphasis on justification by faith and by challenging Orthodox theology to take this emphasis far more seriously, Lucian Turcescu makes a significant contribution to the ecumenical discussion. He criticizes Orthodox theology for passing too readily over
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Revisiting Paul's Doctrine of Justification: A Challenge to the New Perspective. With an Essay by Donald A. Hagner
Trinity Journal
; Peter Stuhlmacher. Revisiting Paul's Doctrine of Justification: A Challenge to the New Perspective. With an Essay by Donald A. Hagner. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2001. 108 pp. $12.95 paper. This slim volume consists of three lectures on Paul's doctrine of justification that Peter Stuhlmacher,
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Living by Faith: Justification and Sanctification
Anglican Theological Review
; Living by Faith: Justification and Sanctification. By Oswald Bayer. Translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley. Lutheran Quarterly Books. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2003. xiv + 89 pages. $20.00 (paper). This slim volume in the Lutheran Quarterly Books Series is a
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Soteriological issues in the 1999 Lutheran-Catholic Joint Declaration on justification: an Orthodox perspective.
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
; Introduction In this essay I have limited my reflections mostly to Lutheran-Orthodox issues, because significant progress has been achieved in the dialogue between these two denominations, particularly with regard to their two fundamental soteriological images, justification and deification,
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