systems. Each believer rests in the promise of God in Christ. Justification is God’s achievement, His judicial declaration. The aspirations found in Anselm’s directions, as the subsequent history of dogma shows, could only be grounded in an understanding of justification by means of the imputed righteousness of Christ, just as Anselm’s view of atonement has its ultimate fruition in this doctrine at the time of the Reformation. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for