revealed God’s righteousness; St. Paul was therefore addressing their concerns about God’s justice and their duties towards Him. St. Paul’s doctrine of justification as found in Romans did not become a dominant theme in the Eastern Church, which maintained a balance between St. Paul and the mysticism of the Gospel of St. John—hence, “There is little emphasis upon justification.”33 It was St. Augustine who took Paul’s doctrine of justification and created and defined a legal relationship between God
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