Q: Dear Gregory, in your column last week you mentioned, in reference to your canon lawyer, that you would rather talk about justification by faith than the ordination. OK – what is this justification ...

The doctrine with which we are concerned is both the divine heart of the Gospel and the Gospel for the human heart. To seek an answer to the question, How can a man be just before God? is to be ...

The doctrine of justification by grace through faith is the heart of Protestant theology. Justification was the driving teaching of the Reformation: Martin Luther wrote in his Smalcald Articles that “ ...

The basic fact of biblical religion is that God pardons and accepts believing sinners (cf. Ps. 32:1–5; 130; Luke 7:47 ff.; 18:9–14; Acts 10:43; 1 John 1:7–2:2). Paul’s doctrine of justification by ...

Man sins — and is saved. But is he saved through a life of piety and good works, or through abiding faith in Christ as Lord and Savior? The question of justification, which in the theological sense is ...

Letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church and to the Ordinaries and Hierarchs, regarding the modifications introduced in the Nine years after the promulgation of the Apostolic Letter Motu proprio ...

Analysis was founded in 1933 to provide a forum for short discussions of topics in philosophy. It quickly established itself as one of the characteristic journals of philosophy within the analytic ...

Last Friday we looked at the biblical truth called justification by faith. From a 19th-Century American statement of faith, “The New Hampshire Confession,” we saw three ways that being justified ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Sola fide is shorthand for the central issue of the Reformation, the material cause, which was the question of justification.