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Justification by Faith Alone

Luther's conviction that the sinner is set right with God by trusting faith alone

This Reformation teaching, associated with Martin Luther, holds that a sinner is justified, declared right with God, by faith alone, apart from works of the law. It became the material principle of the Reformation. Catholic and Orthodox traditions reject the claim in that exclusive form, holding instead that grace works through faith together with love and good works. The traditions therefore differ sharply on how justification happens.

How it traveled

  1. Romans
    Corinth · 67
    explains
  2. Galatians
    Ephesus · 67
    explains
  3. A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  4. Commentary on Galatians
    Wittenberg · 1546
    explains
  5. Discussion: Third Part
    Wittenberg · 1546
    explains
  6. Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It
    Geneva · 1564
    explains
  7. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
    explains
  8. XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvation
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    explains
  9. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    explains
  10. Seventeen Occasional Sermons
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    applies

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Commentary on Galatians · Martin Luther

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