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1 Pre, 1 | particularly asserted and defended in its Reformation shape and
2 Pre, 1 | theology of that time, which in turn asserted and defended
3 Pre, 1 | condemnations were put forward both in the Lutheran Confessions3
4 Pre (3) | condemnations about justification in relation to the Roman Catholic
5 Pre, 2 | occupied an important place in the official Lutheran-Roman
6 Pre (4) | Study Commission, published in Growth in Agreement (New
7 Pre (4) | Commission, published in Growth in Agreement (New York; Geneva,
8 Pre, 3 | Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue in the USA and "The Condemnations
9 Pre (6) | Lutheran and Catholics in Dialogue VII (Minneapolis,
10 Pre, 3 | and Catholic theologians in Germany. Some of these dialogue
11 Pre, 3 | Condemnations" study, made in 1994 at the highest possible
12 Pre, 3 | of the Evangelical Church in Germany8. ~
13 Pre (8) | underlie this resolution, in Lehrverurteilungen im Gespräch,
14 Pre (8) | den evangelischen Kirchen in Deutschland (Göttingen:
15 Pre, 4 | 4. In their discussion of the
16 Pre, 4 | high degree of agreement in their approaches and conclusions.
17 Pre, 5 | God's grace through faith in Christ. It does not cover
18 Pre, 5 | the remaining differences in its explication are no longer
19 Pre (9) | The word "church" is used in this Declaration to reflect
20 Pre, 7 | rests on the conviction that in overcoming the earlier controversial
21 Pre, 7 | shaped by the conviction that in their respective histories
22 Pre, 7 | condemnations and see them in a new light.~
23 1, 8 | listening to the word of God in Scripture has led to such
24 1, 8 | that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may
25 1, 8 | This good news is set forth in Holy Scripture in various
26 1, 8 | forth in Holy Scripture in various ways. In the Old
27 1, 8 | Scripture in various ways. In the Old Testament we listen
28 1, 9 | 9.In the New Testament diverse
29 1, 9 | justification" are found in the writings of Matthew (
30 1, 9 | and James (2:14-26)10. In Paul's letters also, the
31 1, 9 | of salvation is described in various ways, among others: "
32 1, 9 | Cor 5:17), "alive to God in Christ Jesus" (Rom 6:11,
33 1, 9 | 6:11,23), or "sanctified in Christ Jesus" (cf. 1 Cor
34 1, 9 | into particular prominence in the Reformation period. ~
35 1 (10)| Testament texts were addressed in Righteousness in the New
36 1 (10)| addressed in Righteousness in the New Testament, by John
37 1 (10)| this study were summarized in the dialogue report Justification
38 1 (10)| report Justification by Faith in paras. 139-142.~
39 1, 10 | God himself (Jer 23:6). In Christ's death and resurrection
40 1, 10 | 25). All human beings are in need of God's righteousness, "
41 1, 10 | 3:20; 11:32; Gal 3:22). In Galatians (3:6) and Romans (
42 1, 10 | faith (Gen 15:6) as faith in the God who justifies the
43 1, 10 | who, like Abraham, trust in God's promise. "For the
44 1, 10 | cf. Gal 3:11; Rom 1:17). In Paul's letters, God's righteousness
45 1, 10 | Rom 1:16f; 2 Cor 5:21). In Christ he makes it our righteousness (
46 1, 11 | already now, but then fully in God's coming kingdom (Rom
47 1, 11 | resurrection (Rom 6:5). It occurs in the reception of the Holy
48 1, 11 | reception of the Holy Spirit in baptism and incorporation
49 1, 11 | by grace, through faith in "the gospel of God's Son" (
50 1, 12 | 1 Jn 1:9), participate in Christ's body and blood,
51 1, 12 | exhorted to live righteously in accord with the will of
52 1, 12 | it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to
53 1, 12 | condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Rom 8:1),
54 1, 12 | Christ Jesus" (Rom 8:1), and in whom Christ lives (Gal 2:
55 2, 13 | message of justification were in the sixteenth century a
56 2, 13 | doctrine of justification. In light of this consensus,
57 3, 14 | the good news proclaimed in Holy Scripture. This common
58 3, 14 | encompasses a consensus in the basic truths; the differing
59 3, 14 | the differing explications in particular statements are
60 3, 15 | 15.In faith we together hold the
61 3, 15 | himself is our righteousness, in which we share through the
62 3, 15 | through the Holy Spirit in accord with the will of
63 3, 15 | confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving
64 3, 15 | By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and
65 3 (11)| Under One Christ," para. 14, in Growth in Agreement, 241-
66 3 (11)| Christ," para. 14, in Growth in Agreement, 241-247.~
67 3, 16 | called by God to salvation in Christ. Through Christ alone
68 3, 16 | we receive this salvation in faith. Faith is itself God'
69 3, 16 | through word and sacrament in the community of believers
70 3, 16 | will bring to completion in eternal life. ~
71 3, 17 | justification directs us in a special way towards the
72 3, 17 | witness to God's saving action in Christ: it tells us that
73 3, 17 | as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit
74 3, 17 | faith, and never can merit in any way. ~
75 3, 18 | Christian doctrine. It stands in an essential relation to
76 3, 18 | goal of confessing Christ in all things, who alone is
77 3, 18 | Tim 2:5f) through whom God in the Holy Spirit gives himself
78 4 | Human Powerlessness and Sin in Relation to Justification~
79 4, 19 | The freedom they possess in relation to persons and
80 4, 19 | this world is no freedom in relation to salvation, for
81 4, 20 | that persons "cooperate" in preparing for and accepting
82 4, 21 | incapable of cooperating in their salvation, because
83 4, 21 | fully involved personally in their faith, which is effected
84 4, 22 | imparts the gift of new life in Christ. When persons come
85 4, 22 | persons come by faith to share in Christ, God no longer imputes
86 4, 22 | the Holy Spirit effects in them an active love. These
87 4, 22 | united with Christ, who in his person is our righteousness (
88 4, 23 | righteousness before God in Christ through the declaration
89 4, 23 | forgiveness and that only in union with Christ is one'
90 4, 23 | life-renewing effects of grace in human beings. ~
91 4, 24 | gift of new life, which in the Holy Spirit becomes
92 4, 24 | Spirit becomes effective in active love. They do not
93 4, 24 | that God's gift of grace in justification remains independent
94 4, 25 | sinners are justified by faith in the saving action of God
95 4, 25 | the saving action of God in Christ. By the action of
96 4, 25 | action of the Holy Spirit in baptism, they are granted
97 4, 25 | They place their trust in God's gracious promise by
98 4, 25 | faith, which includes hope in God and love for him. Such
99 4, 25 | Such a faith is active in love and thus the Christian
100 4, 25 | without works. But whatever in the justified precedes or
101 4, 26 | understanding, God justifies sinners in faith alone (sola fide).
102 4, 26 | faith alone (sola fide). In faith they place their trust
103 4, 26 | place their trust wholly in their Creator and Redeemer
104 4, 26 | and Redeemer and thus live in communion with him. God
105 4, 26 | person and leads to a life in hope and love. In the doctrine
106 4, 26 | a life in hope and love. In the doctrine of "justification
107 4, 26 | God imparted to the person in justification. Justification
108 4, 26 | Justification and renewal are joined in Christ, who is present in
109 4, 26 | in Christ, who is present in faith. ~
110 4, 27 | sees faith as fundamental in justification. For without
111 4, 27 | of the word and believers in it. The justification of
112 4, 27 | makes us children of God. In justification the righteous
113 4, 27 | justifying grace, this renewal in faith, hope, and love is
114 4, 28 | We confess together that in baptism the Holy Spirit
115 4, 28 | daily for forgiveness as in the Lord's Prayer (Mt. 6:
116 4, 29 | Believers are totally righteous, in that God forgives their
117 4, 29 | Christ which they appropriate in faith. In Christ, they are
118 4, 29 | they appropriate in faith. In Christ, they are made just
119 4, 29 | sinners. Sin still lives in them (1 Jn 1:8; Rom 7:17,
120 4, 29 | the justified are bound in faith. In this life, then,
121 4, 29 | justified are bound in faith. In this life, then, Christians
122 4, 29 | life, then, Christians can in part lead a just life. Despite
123 4, 29 | separated from God, because in the daily return to baptism,
124 4, 29 | this sin is a "ruled" sin. In these affirmations, they
125 4, 29 | these affirmations, they are in agreement with Roman Catholics,
126 4, 29 | despite the difference in understanding sin in the
127 4, 29 | difference in understanding sin in the justified.~
128 4, 30 | of Jesus Christ imparted in baptism takes away all that
129 4, 30 | takes away all that is sin "in the proper sense" and that
130 4, 30 | There does, however, remain in the person an inclination (
131 4, 30 | this element is lacking in this inclination, Catholics
132 4, 30 | this inclination as sin in an authentic sense. They
133 4, 30 | and that it is objectively in contradiction to God and
134 4, 30 | and remains one's enemy in lifelong struggle. Grateful
135 4, 30 | underscore that this inclination in contradiction to God does
136 4, 30 | receive pardon and peace in the Sacrament of Reconciliation
137 4, 30 | forgiveness imparted to them in virtue of God's reconciling
138 4, 30 | of God's reconciling work in Christ. [See Sources for
139 4, 31 | persons are justified by faith in the gospel "apart from works
140 4, 32 | understanding of justification. In its theological use, the
141 4, 32 | persons, Christians also, in that they are sinners, stand
142 4, 32 | uncovers their sin so that, in faith in the gospel, they
143 4, 32 | their sin so that, in faith in the gospel, they will turn
144 4, 32 | unreservedly to the mercy of God in Christ, which alone justifies
145 4, 33 | Christ is not a lawgiver in the manner of Moses. When
146 4, 34 | mercy and promises of God. In spite of their own weakness
147 4, 34 | effective promise of God's grace in Word and Sacrament and so
148 4, 35 | 35.This was emphasized in a particular way by the
149 4, 35 | particular way by the Reformers: in the midst of temptation,
150 4, 35 | Christ and trust only him. In trust in God's promise they
151 4, 35 | trust only him. In trust in God's promise they are assured
152 4, 36 | Reformers to ground faith in the objective reality of
153 4, 36 | experience, and to trust in Christ's forgiving word
154 4, 36 | awakens us to eternal life20. In this sense, one cannot believe
155 4, 36 | sense, one cannot believe in God and at the same time
156 4, 37 | a Christian life lived in faith, hope and love - follow
157 4, 37 | When the justified live in Christ and act in the grace
158 4, 37 | justified live in Christ and act in the grace they receive,
159 4, 37 | receive, they bring forth, in biblical terms, good fruit.
160 4, 38 | Spirit, contribute to growth in grace, so that the righteousness
161 4, 38 | biblical witness, a reward in heaven is promised to these
162 4, 39 | preservation of grace and a growth in grace and faith is also
163 4, 39 | acceptance by God and sharing in the righteousness of Christ
164 4, 39 | that there can be growth in its effects in Christian
165 4, 39 | be growth in its effects in Christian living. When they
166 4, 39 | understand eternal life in accord with the New Testament
167 4, 39 | Testament as unmerited "reward" in the sense of the fulfillment
168 5, 40 | justification set forth in this Declaration shows that
169 5, 40 | Declaration shows that a consensus in basic truths of the doctrine
170 5, 40 | Lutherans and Catholics. In light of this consensus
171 5, 40 | elaboration, and emphasis in the understanding of justification
172 5, 40 | justification described in paras. 18 to 39 are acceptable.
173 5, 40 | explications of justification are in their difference open to
174 5, 41 | condemnations of the 16th century, in so far as they relate to
175 5, 41 | of justification, appear in a new light: The teaching
176 5, 41 | Lutheran churches presented in this Declaration does not
177 5, 41 | Trent. The condemnations in the Lutheran Confessions
178 5, 41 | Catholic Church presented in this Declaration. ~
179 5, 42 | to which we must attend in our teaching and practice21. ~
180 5, 43 | 43.Our consensus in basic truths of the doctrine
181 5, 43 | Here it must prove itself. In this respect, there are
182 5, 43 | and to make it bear fruit in the life and teaching of
183 App | Doctrine of Justification~In parts 3 and 4 of the "Joint
184 App | Joint Commission, 1980, in: Growth in Agreement, edited
185 App | Commission, 1980, in: Growth in Agreement, edited by Harding
186 App | Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue VII, Minneapolis,
187 App | Era.Do They Still Divide?" in: Lehrverurteilungen im Gespräch,
188 App | importance for Paul and, in a sense, for the Bible as
189 App | free and merciful promises in Christ Jesus which can be
190 App | mediator through whom God in the Holy Spirit pours out
191 App | saving gifts. All of us in this dialogue affirm that
192 App | obedience of faith' (Rom. 1:5) in God's saving action in Christ
193 App | in God's saving action in Christ Jesus alone through
194 App | retain a special function in the church. That function
195 App | bestowed on us, but which we in no way - in however modified
196 App | but which we in no way - in however modified a form - '
197 App | view - fundamental progress in the ecumenical dialogue
198 App | justification has a different status in the hierarchy of truth;
199 App | has its specific function in the fact that it is 'the
200 App | Human Powerlessness and Sin in Relation to Justification (
201 App | VELKD 77-81; 83f) ~- "Those in whom sin reigns can do nothing
202 App | forgiveness, must be God's work in us" (USA, no. 156.3). ~- "
203 App | can be 'cooperation' only in the sense that in faith
204 App | only in the sense that in faith the heart is involved,
205 App | God to his human creatures in justification with such
206 App | sole efficacy of Christ in such a way, that the person'
207 App | has no essential role in justification, then the
208 App | full personal participation in believing; rather it meant
209 App | exclude any cooperation in the event of justification
210 App | not a legal fiction. God, in justifying, effects what
211 App | which is 'merely' forgiven in justification but which
212 App | which is not truly abolished in its power to divide the
213 App | following 1 Cor. 13:13) sums up in the triad of 'faith, hope,
214 App | We emphasize that faith in the sense of the first commandment
215 App | means love to God and hope in him and is expressed in
216 App | in him and is expressed in the love to the neighbour" (
217 App | and the new man or woman in Christ has life (sola fide
218 App | gracious promise. Acceptance in Christ is sufficient, if '
219 App | is understood as 'trust in the promise' (fides promissionis)" (
220 App | Chap. 7: "Consequently, in the process of justification,
221 App | unconditionally to God's promise in Word and Sacrament is sufficient
222 App | can be no faith, does not in itself make any contribution
223 App | with the Protestant concern in emphasizing that the renewal
224 App | power; although this renewal in faith, hope, and love is
225 App | Catholic doctrine, remain in the justified, who therefore
226 App | the Reformers are at one in maintaining that original
227 App | concupiscence that remains, are in contradiction to God ..object
228 App | fter baptism, concupiscence in the person justified no
229 App | that person off from God; in Tridentine language, it
230 App | language, it is 'no longer sin in the real sense'; in Lutheran
231 App | sin in the real sense'; in Lutheran phraseology, it
232 App | concupiscence that remains in the justified a 'contradiction
233 App | was fulfilled and overcome in Christ. This statement and
234 App | to Christians as stated in many places of the confessions..
235 App | human beings live before God in spite of their weakness,
236 App | the absolution pronounced in the sacrament of penance,
237 App | on earth shall be loosed in heaven' (Matt. 16:19), the
238 App | forgiveness of God uttered in the absolution ..This reliance
239 App | efforts to ground faith in the objective reality of
240 App | promise. But if he believes in this sense, he cannot at
241 App | believe that God is unreliable in his word of promise. In
242 App | in his word of promise. In this sense it is true today
243 App | is true today also that - in Luther's words - faith is
244 App | dealt with clearly enough in the LV. The question whether
245 App | itself, through membership in Christ (can. 32: DS 1582).
246 App | Reformers attack 'Godless trust' in one's own works, the Council
247 App | introduced the concept of merit, in order to express the responsibility
248 App | responsibility of human beings, in spite of the 'bestowed'
249 App | the language of "cause" in Canon 24 in more personal
250 App | language of "cause" in Canon 24 in more personal terms, as
251 App | personal terms, as it is done in chapter 16 of the Decree
252 App | doctrine on merit as it is done in the first sentence of the
253 App | paragraph of 4.7: growth in grace, perseverance in righteousness
254 App | growth in grace, perseverance in righteousness received from
255 App | viewed and thought about in connection with the true
256 App | grace received but to live in it ..Thus the confessions
257 App | preservation of grace and a growth in it. If righteousness in
258 App | in it. If righteousness in Canon 24 is understood in
259 App | in Canon 24 is understood in the sense that it affects
260 App | But if 'righteousness' in Canon 24 refers to the Christian'
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