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1 Pre, 1 | sixteenth century. It was held to be the "first and chief
2 Pre (3)| justification in relation to the Roman Catholic Church.~
3 Pre, 3 | attention should be drawn to the following reports: "
4 Pre, 3 | Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Germany to the "Condemnations" study,
5 Pre, 4 | time has therefore come to take stock and to summarize
6 Pre, 4 | therefore come to take stock and to summarize the results of
7 Pre, 4 | and thereby be enabled to make binding decisions. ~
8 Pre, 5 | this intention: namely, to show that on the basis of
9 Pre, 5 | Catholic Church9 are now able to articulate a common understanding
10 Pre (9)| used in this Declaration to reflect the self-understandings
11 Pre (9)| churches, without intending to resolve all the ecclesiological
12 Pre (9)| ecclesiological issues related to this term.~
13 Pre, 6 | dialogue reports and documents to date, let alone a replacement
14 Pre, 6 | makes repeated reference to them and their arguments. ~
15 Pre, 7 | histories our churches have come to new insights. Developments
16 Pre, 7 | also require the churches to examine the divisive questions
17 1, 8 | common way of listening to the word of God in Scripture
18 1, 8 | God in Scripture has led to such new insights. Together
19 1, 8 | Old Testament we listen to God's word about human sinfulness (
20 1, 9 | cf. Rom 6:7), "reconciled to God" (2 Cor 5:18-21; cf.
21 1, 9 | creation" (2 Cor 5:17), "alive to God in Christ Jesus" (Rom
22 1, 10 | 1 Cor 1:30), applying to the risen Lord what Jeremiah
23 1, 10 | is "our Lord, who was put to death for our trespasses
24 1, 10 | testimony of the Old Testament to undergird his gospel that
25 1, 10 | righteousness will be reckoned to all who, like Abraham, trust
26 1, 12 | and blood, and be exhorted to live righteously in accord
27 1, 12 | is why the Apostle says to the justified: "Work out
28 1, 12 | in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his
29 1, 12 | enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure" (
30 1, 12 | act of righteousness leads to justification and life for
31 2, 13 | Western church and led as well to doctrinal condemnations.
32 2, 13 | fundamental and indispensable to overcoming that division.
33 2, 13 | ecumenical dialogue has led to a notable convergence concerning
34 2, 13 | Joint Declaration is able to formulate a consensus on
35 2, 13 | sixteenth century do not apply to today's partner.~
36 3, 14 | Church have together listened to the good news proclaimed
37 3, 14 | of recent years, has led to a shared understanding of
38 3, 15 | sent his Son into the world to save sinners. The foundation
39 3, 15 | equipping and calling us to good works11. ~
40 3, 16 | people are called by God to salvation in Christ. Through
41 3, 16 | life which God will bring to completion in eternal life. ~
42 3, 17 | the New Testament witness to God's saving action in Christ:
43 3, 17 | our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing
44 3, 18 | in an essential relation to all truths of faith, which
45 3, 18 | truths of faith, which are to be seen as internally related
46 3, 18 | seen as internally related to each other. It is an indispensable
47 3, 18 | which constantly serves to orient all the teaching
48 3, 18 | practice of our churches to Christ. When Lutherans emphasize
49 3, 18 | all things, who alone is to be trusted above all things
50 4 | Powerlessness and Sin in Relation to Justification~
51 4, 19 | they possess in relation to persons and the things of
52 4, 19 | is no freedom in relation to salvation, for as sinners
53 4, 19 | of turning by themselves to God to seek deliverance,
54 4, 19 | turning by themselves to God to seek deliverance, of meriting
55 4, 19 | this together, it is true to say:~
56 4, 20 | justification by consenting to God's justifying action,
57 4, 21 | 21.According to Lutheran teaching, human
58 4, 21 | justification, they mean thereby to exclude any possibility
59 4, 21 | possibility of contributing to one's own justification,
60 4, 22 | When persons come by faith to share in Christ, God no
61 4, 22 | Christ, God no longer imputes to them their sin and through
62 4, 22 | gracious action are not to be separated, for persons
63 4, 22 | this together, it is true to say that: ~
64 4, 23 | their intention is above all to insist that the sinner is
65 4, 23 | life. They intend rather to express that justification
66 4, 24 | grace imparted as a gift to the believer13, they wish
67 4, 24 | the believer13, they wish to insist that God's forgiving
68 4, 26 | 26.According to Lutheran understanding,
69 4, 26 | of the person and leads to a life in hope and love.
70 4, 26 | the love of God imparted to the person in justification.
71 4, 27 | This new personal relation to God is grounded totally
72 4, 27 | gracious God, who remains true to himself, so that one can
73 4, 27 | becomes a human possession to which one could appeal over
74 4, 27 | and contributes nothing to justification about which
75 4, 28 | through life constantly look to God's unconditional justifying
76 4, 28 | are continuously exposed to the power of sin still pressing
77 4, 28 | against the contradiction to God within the selfish desires
78 4, 28 | are ever again called to conversion and penance,
79 4, 29 | for they repeatedly turn to false gods and do not love
80 4, 29 | pr.). This contradiction to God is as such truly sin.
81 4, 29 | because in the daily return to baptism, the person who
82 4, 29 | and that their opposition to God is truly sin, they do
83 4, 30 | toward sin. Since, according to Catholic conviction, human
84 4, 30 | inclination does not correspond to God's original design for
85 4, 30 | objectively in contradiction to God and remains one's enemy
86 4, 30 | inclination in contradiction to God does not merit the punishment
87 4, 30 | from God, it is not enough to return to observing the
88 4, 30 | is not enough to return to observing the commandments,
89 4, 30 | of forgiveness imparted to them in virtue of God's
90 4, 31 | has overcome it as a way to salvation. We also confess
91 4, 32 | they will turn unreservedly to the mercy of God in Christ,
92 4, 33 | Because the law as a way to salvation has been fulfilled
93 4, 33 | the righteous are bound to observe God's commandments,
94 4, 33 | has mercifully promised to his children the grace of
95 4, 34 | and the manifold threats to their faith, on the strength
96 4, 35 | believers should not look to themselves but look solely
97 4, 35 | themselves but look solely to Christ and trust only him.
98 4, 36 | concern of the Reformers to ground faith in the objective
99 4, 36 | reality of Christ's promise, to look away from one's own
100 4, 36 | one's own experience, and to trust in Christ's forgiving
101 4, 36 | Council, Catholics state: to have faith is to entrust
102 4, 36 | state: to have faith is to entrust oneself totally
103 4, 36 | entrust oneself totally to God19, who liberates us
104 4, 36 | and death and awakens us to eternal life20. In this
105 4, 37 | Scriptures admonish Christians to bring forth the works of
106 4, 38 | 38.According to Catholic understanding,
107 4, 38 | Holy Spirit, contribute to growth in grace, so that
108 4, 38 | of good works, they wish to say that, according to the
109 4, 38 | wish to say that, according to the biblical witness, a
110 4, 38 | reward in heaven is promised to these works. Their intention
111 4, 38 | works. Their intention is to emphasize the responsibility
112 4, 38 | persons for their actions, not to contest the character of
113 4, 38 | works as gifts, or far less to deny that justification
114 4, 39 | fulfillment of God's promise to the believer. [See Sources
115 5, 40 | justification described in paras. 18 to 39 are acceptable. Therefore
116 5, 40 | in their difference open to one another and do not destroy
117 5, 41 | in so far as they relate to the doctrine of justification,
118 5, 41 | Confessions do not apply to the teaching of the Roman
119 5, 42 | the condemnations related to the doctrine of justification.
120 5, 42 | for us "salutary warnings" to which we must attend in
121 5, 43 | justification must come to influence the life and teachings
122 5, 43 | Catholic Church will continue to strive together to deepen
123 5, 43 | continue to strive together to deepen this common understanding
124 5, 43 | understanding of justification and to make it bear fruit in the
125 5, 44 | 44.We give thanks to the Lord for this decisive
126 5, 44 | step forward on the way to overcoming the division
127 5, 44 | We ask the Holy Spirit to lead us further toward that
128 App | Lutheran-Catholic dialogues~are referred to. They are the following
129 App | Enchiridion symbolorum ...32nd to 36th edition (hereafter:
130 App | can acknowledge the need to test the practices, structures,
131 App | the church by the extent to which they help or hinder '
132 App | solus Christus). He alone is to be ultimately trusted as
133 App | offices should so function as to foster 'the obedience of
134 App | function is continually to remind Christians that we
135 App | God, which we merely allow to be bestowed on us, but which
136 App | form - 'earn' or are able to tie down to any preconditions
137 App | or are able to tie down to any preconditions or postconditions.
138 App | interpretation of our relationship to God can claim the name of '
139 App | and its praxis correspond to what has been given to it
140 App | correspond to what has been given to it by its Lord" (LV:E 69). ~- "
141 App | interpretation of our relationship to God can claim the name of "
142 App | and its praxis correspond to what has been given to it
143 App | correspond to what has been given to it by its Lord' (LV:E 69).
144 App | teachings still deserves to be studied further" (PCPCU
145 App | Powerlessness and Sin in Relation to Justification (paras 19-
146 App | sin reigns can do nothing to merit justification, which
147 App | Both are concerned to make it clear that ... human
148 App | word of promise which comes to human beings from outside
149 App | construes the relation of God to his human creatures in justification
150 App | meant, on the Lutheran side, to contest the full personal
151 App | believing; rather it meant to exclude any cooperation
152 App | truly abolished in its power to divide the sinner from God" (
153 App | translate from one language to another, then Protestant
154 App | through faith corresponds to Catholic talk about justification
155 App | commandment always means love to God and hope in him and
156 App | is expressed in the love to the neighbour" (VELKD 89,
157 App | Lutherans, that nothing prior to the free gift of faith merits
158 App | which the flesh is dead to sin and the new man or woman
159 App | DH 1530). ~- "According to Protestant interpretation,
160 App | that clings unconditionally to God's promise in Word and
161 App | itself make any contribution to justification" (LV:E 52). ~- "
162 App | Catholic doctrine knows itself to be at one with the Protestant
163 App | being does not 'contribute' to justification, and is certainly
164 App | certainly not a contribution to which he could make any
165 App | Nevertheless it feels compelled to stress the renewal of the
166 App | certainly nothing but a response to God's unfathomable grace" (
167 App | being does not contribute to justification, and is certainly
168 App | certainly not a contribution to which a person could make
169 App | holy, they fall from time to time into the sins that
170 App | personal sin, according to Catholic doctrine, remain
171 App | therefore must pray daily to God for forgiveness" (USA,
172 App | remains, are in contradiction to God ..object of the lifelong
173 App | The question is how to speak of sin with regard
174 App | speak of sin with regard to the justified without limiting
175 App | concupiscence. With regard to this question a considerable
176 App | justified a 'contradiction to God' and thus qualifies
177 App | paras. 31-33) ~- According to Pauline teaching this topic
178 App | consequences from it have to be understood on this basis. ~-
179 App | basis. ~- With reference to Canons 19f of the Council
180 App | commandments of course apply to Christians as stated in
181 App | that a person ..is bound to keep the commandments of
182 App | this canon does not strike to us; if however Canon 20
183 App | commandments this applies to us. Concerning the reference
184 App | otherwise it would apply to us." ~- The last paragraph
185 App | paragraph is related factually to 4.3, but emphasizes the '
186 App | the law which is important to Lutheran thinking. ~For
187 App | weakness, and the threat to faith and salvation which
188 App | emphasizes that "it is necessary to believe that sins are not
189 App | and lack of dispositions, to be anxious and fearful about
190 App | believer ..would declare Christ to be a liar ..if he did not
191 App | yet another problem, so to speak: the believer should
192 App | it, and should look only to Christ's word of forgiveness" (
193 App | appreciate the Reformer's efforts to ground faith in the objective
194 App | loose on earth?.... and to focus believers on the specific
195 App | Luther's original concern to teach people to look away
196 App | concern to teach people to look away from their experience,
197 App | from their experience, and to rely on Christ alone and
198 App | word of forgiveness [is not to be condemned]" (PCPCU 24). ~-
199 App | faith, and self-commitment to God and his word of promise.
200 App | E 56). ~- With reference to the concept of faith of
201 App | of faith' ..must be given to God who reveals, an obedience
202 App | entrusts his whole self freely to God, offering 'the full
203 App | submission of intellect and will to God who reveals', and freely
204 App | reveals', and freely assenting to the truth revealed by Him."~- "
205 App | faith which looks alone to Christ and earthly security (
206 App | that the Council wishes to establish a link with Augustine,
207 App | concept of merit, in order to express the responsibility
208 App | word 'merit' were simply to be viewed and thought about
209 App | person is responsible not to lose the grace received
210 App | lose the grace received but to live in it ..Thus the confessions
211 App | then it does not strike to us. But if 'righteousness'
212 App | righteousness' in Canon 24 refers to the Christian's acceptance
213 App | acceptance by God, it strikes to us; for this righteousness
214 App | Concerning Canon 26, we refer to the Apology where eternal
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