Tag: justification
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The Reformed Doctrine of Justification by Works: Historical Survey and Emerging Consensus
[This essay was originally published in a festschrift for Norman Shepherd.] It is well known that the Protestant Reformation unearthed the glorious biblical truth of justification by faith alone. But it is not as well known that the early Calvinistic Reformers taught a “second justification”[1] by works, based on texts such as Mathew 25:31–46, 2…
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4/28/24 Sermon Follow-Up: Justification by (fill in the blank)
Justification by (fill in the blank). My sermon was based on the premise that justification is not just a Christian concern, but an innate human concern. All people operate out of a desire for justification — to be declared in the right, to be innocent, to be validated, to be vindicated. A great deal of human…
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