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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Justification by faith"”.
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Augustine of Hippo: On Justification by Faith
… aims to retrieve Augustine of Hippo’s view of ‘justification by faith’ from his theological writings from the 390s to the end of his career. Significant sources are his early, unfinished commentaries on Paul’s letters to the Romans and his completed commentary on Galatians. In these, Augustine …
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Justification One Hundred Years After Paul
… 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 the Apostolic …
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Judgment according to Works in the Epistle to the Romans
… which lays the foundation for Paul's doctrine of justification by faith. Second, within the argument of Romans, justification by faith is an alternative, saving approach to the positive recompense of the final judgment. Two other functions of the motif are also identified in the letter. In Romans …
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Faith, obedience, and justification: Current evangelical departures from sola fide
… 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 the historic, Reformation doctrine, their professions …
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Odd Fellows: The Intersection of Arminianism and Calvinism in the writings of Desmond Ford and F.F. Bruce
… theological struggles over righteousness by faith and perfectionism revealed that Adventists were confused about their Protestant identity and what it meant to have the assurance of salvation. That struggle is exemplified in Desmond Ford’s writings. His doctoral studies under evangelical …
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Odd Fellows: the Intersection of Arminianism and Calvinism in the Writings of Desmond Ford and F.F. Bruce
… theological struggles over righteousness by faith and perfectionism revealed that Adventists were confused about their Protestant identity and what it meant to have the assurance of salvation. That struggle is exemplified in Desmond Ford’s writings. His doctoral studies under evangelical …
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Equipping Small Group Leaders of Laurelglen Bible Church in Bakersfield, California, to Know and Defend Six Foundational Christian Doctrines
… of the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith. Chapter 1 is the introduction, which explains the ministry context of Laurelglen Bible Church, rationale, and purpose, as well as the research methodology and definitions and limitations of this project. Chapter 2 explains the biblical and …
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The new Exodus in Paul's letter to the Galatians
… have been suggested for Galatians, including justification by faith alone, the need for Gentiles to follow the Mosaic law (via the New Perspective on Paul), or sonship, none of them truly binds the letter together or is satisfactorily represented in all six chapters. The search within existent …
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Nurturing faith and identity in the evangelical Anglican family, 1760-1830
… evangelical movement in the Church of England. By analysing the archive material left by the Venn family of the period this study draws a picture of the family and devotional life of one clerical evangelical family who lived at the centre of the evangelical movement within the Church of England. …
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The Evangelicalism of Alexander Carson
… the inspiration of Scripture and the principles by which it was to be translated were given within the context of the theological controversies in which he was involved. Chapter 3 examines Carson's view of the atonement. It looks at his understanding of humanity's sin, divine justice and mercy, …
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ZHAO Zi-chen’s doctrine of salvation within the praxis model of contextual theology (1920-1950)
… he strove to fulfil his social aspiration by attempting to restore hope, social order, and peace for the suffering Chinese people through the advocation of Christian ethics. This study focuses on ZHAO’s doctrine of salvation; the initial proposition is to determine how he interpreted this …
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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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Development of a Rationale and Methodology for the College-level Religion Course "Life and Teachings of Jesus"
… and critical thinking and for emphasizing justification by faith and a trust relationship with God.</p> <p>Based on this rationale a thematic cluster curriculum was developed in which instructional priorities were established through a computer-assisted thematic analysis of the Gospels …
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Justification and the Individual in the Wake of the New Perspective on Paul
… 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 concerned with the individual before God in need of grace, who is counted …
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Contest of Civility: Conformity, Dissent, and the Struggle for Religious Liberty
By the early 1660s, two bordering jurisdictions in colonial America enacted fundamentally divergent political communities. Massachusetts perpetuated civility of conformity, a political formulation that fastened society around a mandated theological construct, which was enforced and nourished by the …
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Baptists and religious liberty: 1700-1900
… attention is devoted to the theological justifications for religious liberty and church-state separation among seventeenth and eighteenth-century Baptists. Chapter 6 examines the social, theological, and political trends of the late eighteenth century and the nineteenth century to …
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The pastoral intent of the writings of Henry Holcombe Tucker
… doctrines as the person and work of Christ and justification by faith in a manner that placed him in the mainstream of historic Christian orthodoxy. Chapter 3 addresses the issue of authority and seeks to show that Tucker, like all Baptists of his day, held to the Reformation principle of sola …
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No Other Gospel: Distinguishing Faith and Works in Paul’s Letter to the Galatians for the Student Ministry of Bethel Church
… In other words, salvation has always been by grace through faith across all redemptive history. Chapter 2 argues that very reality. By looking at Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the garden and God’s covenant with Abraham, salvation is seen as an act of faith in response to God’s grace. …
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John Calvin’s Theology of Hope in the 1559 Institutes
… topic in Calvin. This thesis fills this lacuna by examining the nature and function of hope in Calvin’s theology across a range of doctrinal loci, with a primary focus on the Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559). In doing so, it foregrounds several important themes that have been …