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Justification

How does a guilty sinner stand righteous before God — declared so, or remade?

Justification is the act by which God sets a sinner right with himself, drawing especially on Paul's letters to the Romans and Galatians. Here lies a core Reformation dispute. The Reformers, following Luther, held it to be a forensic declaration — God pronounces the sinner righteous through faith. Catholics, at the Council of Trent, taught a transforming, righteousness-making grace. The 1999 Joint Declaration narrowed but did not erase this difference.

How it traveled

  1. James
    Jerusalem · 62
    explains
  2. Romans
    Corinth · 67
    explains
  3. Galatians
    Ephesus · 67
    explains
  4. 1 Corinthians
    Ephesus · 67
    explains
  5. Philippians
    Rome · 67
    explains
  6. Luke
    Rome · 84
    applies
  7. Acts
    Rome · 84
    explains
  8. Against Heresies: Book IV
    Lyons · 202
    explains
  9. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  10. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  11. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  12. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  13. Homilies on Second Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  14. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  15. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  16. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  17. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  18. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  19. A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  20. A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  21. A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  22. A Treatise on Nature and Grace
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  23. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  24. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  25. A Treatise on Grace and Free Will
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  26. A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  27. The Enchiridion
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  28. A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  29. A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  30. On the Holy Trinity
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains

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Discussion: Third Part · Martin Luther

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Galatians · Paul the Apostle

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