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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...

The key idea here is that the ungodly person is accepted by God because they are deemed righteous. As their lives are sinful they are not in or of themselves righteousness. Having been justified, however, they are no longer regarded as sinners for they have been acquitted at the judgement seat of God. Reduced to its simplest form, this then is Calvin’s definition: To justify, therefore, is nothing else than to acquit from the charge of guilt, as if innocence were proved. (Institutes, 3.11.3) Calvin
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