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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...

tradition as having an original righteousness. But when this set of ordered relationships was lost through sin and the interior disposition of our being became disorientated or discordant, the renewal of such righteousness could only be established through the remission of sin. For in the forgiveness of our sin, our broken relation with God is re-established or reordered. It is in the sense then of reordered relationships that we are to understand the righteousness of the justified. That is why Thomas
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