"The gift of salvation": Its failure to address the crux of justification

From: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Date: December 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

I. INTRODUCTION

In the fall of 1997, a group of evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics agreed upon a statement concerning the nature of salvation, which was subsequently published in First Things under the title, "The Gift of Salvation." A central aim of the discussions which led to this document was to find "firm agreement on the meaning of salvation, and especially the doctrine of justification" which had not been addressed in a 1994 statement known as "Evangelicals and Catholics Together."' The "Gift of Salvation" therefore takes its place alongside quite a number of recent attempts ...

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