Loading…

Justification: A Guide for the Perplexed is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

righteousness. God, therefore, heals us not only that He may blot out the sin which we have committed, but, furthermore, that He may enable us even to avoid sinning. (On Nature and Grace, 29)9 When Augustine speaks of our righteousness being not our own but God’s, he is indicating that God is the author of this transformation of our lives. It is not something that we can of ourselves manufacture. Justification is for him not only an act of pardon but the creation of a new way of living. This formation
Page 35
Buy this book at Logos.com