Justification: A Guide for the Perplexed
Overview
This volume provides an upper-level introduction to the doctrine of justification—the doctrine so central to the Apostle Paul in the first century, Augustine in the fourth century, the Reformers in the sixteenth century, and which continues to be of utmost importance in the contemporary church. The core of the book is a historical survey of the doctrine of justification as it has developed within the Western church. The focus is on a number of principal theologians with reference also made to their peers and followers. After the historical theological survey, Spence offers a clear examination of the Pauline texts on justification. The conclusion considers what part the doctrine of justification can have within a modern worldview in which the concept of divine judgment has generally been marginalized.
Top Highlights
“Faith for Calvin is not to be considered as the outcome of justification but rather as the agency through which justification is obtained.” (Page 80)
“The Eastern Church has tended to view the human plight in terms of spiritual blindness, bondage to” (Page 2)
“Justification is for him not only an act of pardon but the creation of a new way of living” (Page 35)
“he held that in the act of justification there is an infusion of grace” (Page 47)
- Title: Justification: A Guide for the Perplexed
- Author: Alan J. Spence
- Series: Guides for the Perplexed
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Justification (Christian theology) › History of doctrines
- ISBNs: 9780567351678, 056735167X
- Resource ID: LLS:JSTFCTNGDPRPLXD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:59:00Z