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Living by Faith: Justification and Sanctification is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Living by faith” is much more than a general Christian precept; it is the fundamental posture of believers in a world rife with suffering and injustice. In this penetrating reflection on the meaning of “justification,” Oswald Bayer shows how this key religious term provides a comprehensive horizon for discussing every aspect of Christian theology, from creation to the end times. Inspired by and...

demand that it also be fulfilled in praxis. With the schema of theory and praxis “they fall into the error of saying, ‘Faith is not enough; one must do works.’ ”23 In other words, they think that sanctification must be added to justification. Faith is neither a theory nor a praxis of self-fulfillment. It is a passive righteousness, namely, the work of God in us that we experience with suffering, dying both to justifying thinking and justifying action. The meaning is not that faith is both unthinking
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