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The Doctrine on Which the Church Stands or Falls: Justification in Biblical, Theological, Historical, and Pastoral Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many factors contributed to the Protestant Reformation, but one of the most significant was the debate over the doctrine of justification by faith alone. In fact, Martin Luther argued that justification is the doctrine on which the church stands or falls. This comprehensive volume of 26 essays from a host of scholars explores the doctrine of justification from the lenses of history, the Bible,...

(not infusion) of Christ’s righteousness, whereas sanctification is a process that spans the Christian life in which the Spirit works internally to conform one to the image of Christ. The former is judicial, but the latter is sanative. This distinction Rome could neither conceive nor accept. Yet such an objection also fails to see that justification and sanctification, distinguishable as they may be, are nevertheless inseparable. They are a double grace, a duplex gratia, which stems from union with
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