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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Doctrine of justification"”.
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Martin Luther's Doctrine of Justification and Salvation
Man is born of woman. It is she who watches over and cares for him during his tender years. It is she who first teaches him to commend himself to his Maker. In fact, it is she who is the dominating influence of his early years. Next to the mother's influence, during this period, comes that of the …
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Justified: A sacred cantata based on Paul's doctrine of Justification
… that uses prose Scripture alone as its source of text. The text incorporated is drawn from Romans chapters 3-11 with additional text from Genesis 15 and 17 and 2 Timothy 2:12; the work is a setting of Paul's explanation of the doctrine of Justification. The work is intended for performance by …
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Justification and Good Works: A Study of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification
The doctrine of justification tells how the saving grace of God in Christ can be actualized in the believers. Because of the very importance of this doctrine, disputes broke out between Augustine and Pelagius, later in the medieval period, and most importantly during the Reformation period - which …
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Justification and Merit: the Interpretation and Evaluation of the Concept of Merit in Modern Catholic Theology in Relation to Luther's Doctrine of Justification
<p>The teaching of justification of the sinner soley by faith is the "heart" of the Reformation. Martin Luther viewed it as the"main teaching" of Christianity and demonstrated this assertion by the concepts of the sole agency of God and of the consecutive character of good works. Since he could …
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Justification One Hundred Years After Paul
… to answer the following question: how did the doctrine of justification fare one hundred years after Paul's death (c. AD 165)? The thesis argued is that Paul's view of justification by faith is present in the second century, which particularly challenges T. F. Torrance's long-held notion that …
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Faith, obedience, and justification: Current evangelical departures from sola fide
The thesis of this study is that influential evangelicals have adopted views regarding the relation of faith, obedience, and justification (or, in other words, justification sola fide ) that are in conflict with the historic, Reformation doctrine of justification sola fide . Having departed from …
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Judgment according to Works in the Epistle to the Romans
… dissertation examines the meaning and function of the theme of judgment according to works in the epistle to the Romans. It may be summarized with two theses: First, in Romans 1:18-3:20, the judgment motif primarily functions to make a universal accusation of sin and guilt which lays the …
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Salvation and the Will: Human and Divine Cooperation in the Theologies of Martin Luther and Maximus the Confessor
The Lutheran tradition is arguably defined by the doctrine of justification by grace through faith, a view of salvation understood primarily—though not exclusively— as extrinsic and forensic in character. In contrast, the Eastern Orthodox tradition has been often characterized by the doctrine of …
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Nurturing faith and identity in the evangelical Anglican family, 1760-1830
This thesis discusses the distinctiveness of the evangelical Anglican family and its role in the development and spread of Evangelicalism during the second half of the long eighteenth century. This period has been chosen for its significance in the growth of the evangelical movement in the Church …
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A Historical, Biblical, and Theological Interpretation of Covenants: Unconditionality and Conditionality in Relation to Justification and Sanctification
… involves four interrelated subjects: justification, sanctification, union with Christ, and covenant theology. It is comprised of four main parts, set forth with the thesis that the nature of the biblical covenants God makes with humans is both unconditional and conditional (or …
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The doctrine of revelation in the theology of Thomas F. Torrance
This thesis is an exposition and close reading of Torrance's doctrine of revelation and of the theological epistemology that emerges from it. In Torrance's account personal knowledge of God is available only in his self revelation in Christ. However, it is shown that his understanding of the place …
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Justification and the Individual in the Wake of the New Perspective on Paul
This dissertation contends that in spite of the increasing trajectory toward a more corporate, covenantal understanding of justification within Pauline scholarship since the emergence of the New Perspective on Paul, there still remains significant evidence that justification, at its core, is …
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John Calvin’s Theology of Hope in the 1559 Institutes
… has been growing scholarly interest in the theme of hope across a number of disciplines in response to a sense among many that the contemporary world offers more reasons for despair than for hope. Against this background, this thesis explores the contribution of John Calvin, the most influential …
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The faith of Jesus Christ: an analysis of Paul's use of pistis Christou
… that the Pauline phrase, pistis Christou ("faith of Christ" [Rom 3:22,26; Gal 2:16, 20; 3:22; Phil 3:9; Eph 3:12]), in its various contexts, is best translated as "faith in Christ" (objective genitive) and not "faith/faithfulness of Christ" (subjective genitive). Chapter 1 surveys the history of …