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This significant work, precipitated by the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Joint Declaration on the doctrine of justification, represents Eberhard Jüngel’s most sustained theological writing for some time. Jüngel examines the role of justification in Christian Faith—and emphasizes its central importance. He traces the history of the concept of “justice” in Greek thought, and of the Old Testament...

conduct, their behaviour, their past life and their claim to a future life is linked with the fact that people require recognition. It is essential for people to be recognized. Their personhood depends on it. As human beings we demand recognition of ourselves. The wish for justification has its source in this basic human need for recognition. The fact that people must justify themselves, that they can be compelled to do so, points to a further basic human requirement: to be human means the necessity
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