oratory, and so forensics in that sense had to do with making declarations and arguments for or against something. If we tie together these two ways of using the term forensic—one with respect to the law courts and one with respect to public speaking—we get close to the way the term forensic is used in theology, that is, with respect to legal declarations. Thus, forensic justification means that justification rests upon some kind of legal declaration. In the simplest terms, that means that justification
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