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1 Pre, 3 | Commission, "Justification by Faith" (1983)6 of the Lutheran-Roman
2 Pre, 5 | justification by God's grace through faith in Christ. It does not cover
3 1, 9 | beings by God's grace through faith (Rom 3:23-25), which came
4 1 (10)| 26-30; Justification by Faith, paras. 122-147. At the
5 1 (10)| report Justification by Faith in paras. 139-142.~
6 1, 10 | God is revealed through faith for faith" (Rom 1:16f) and
7 1, 10 | revealed through faith for faith" (Rom 1:16f) and that grants "
8 1, 10 | Paul understands Abraham's faith (Gen 15:6) as faith in the
9 1, 10 | Abraham's faith (Gen 15:6) as faith in the God who justifies
10 1, 10 | the righteous will live by faith (Hab 2:4; cf. Gal 3:11;
11 1, 10 | power for those who have faith (Rom 1:16f; 2 Cor 5:21).
12 1, 10 | blood, effective through faith" (Rom 3:25; see 3:21-28). "
13 1, 10 | have been saved through faith, and this is not your own
14 1, 11 | sake, by grace, through faith in "the gospel of God's
15 1, 12 | 12.The justified live by faith that comes from the Word
16 3, 15 | 15.In faith we together hold the conviction
17 3, 15 | confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work
18 3, 16 | receive this salvation in faith. Faith is itself God's gift
19 3, 16 | this salvation in faith. Faith is itself God's gift through
20 3, 17 | a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in
21 3, 18 | relation to all truths of faith, which are to be seen as
22 3, 18 | significance of all truths of faith. When Catholics see themselves
23 4, 21 | involved personally in their faith, which is effected by God'
24 4, 22 | Christ. When persons come by faith to share in Christ, God
25 4, 22 | separated, for persons are by faith united with Christ, who
26 4 | 4.3 Justification by Faith and through Grace~
27 4, 25 | sinners are justified by faith in the saving action of
28 4, 25 | gracious promise by justifying faith, which includes hope in
29 4, 25 | and love for him. Such a faith is active in love and thus
30 4, 25 | follows the free gift of faith is neither the basis of
31 4, 26 | God justifies sinners in faith alone (sola fide). In faith
32 4, 26 | faith alone (sola fide). In faith they place their trust wholly
33 4, 26 | him. God himself effects faith as he brings forth such
34 4, 26 | doctrine of "justification by faith alone," a distinction but
35 4, 26 | justification and without which faith does not exist. Thereby
36 4, 26 | Christ, who is present in faith. ~
37 4, 27 | understanding also sees faith as fundamental in justification.
38 4, 27 | justification. For without faith, no justification can take
39 4, 27 | righteous receive from Christ faith, hope, and love and are
40 4, 27 | justifying grace, this renewal in faith, hope, and love is always
41 4, 29 | which they appropriate in faith. In Christ, they are made
42 4, 29 | the justified are bound in faith. In this life, then, Christians
43 4, 31 | persons are justified by faith in the gospel "apart from
44 4, 32 | uncovers their sin so that, in faith in the gospel, they will
45 4, 34 | manifold threats to their faith, on the strength of Christ'
46 4, 36 | the Reformers to ground faith in the objective reality
47 4, 36 | Catholics state: to have faith is to entrust oneself totally
48 4, 37 | Christian life lived in faith, hope and love - follow
49 4, 39 | and a growth in grace and faith is also held by Lutherans.
50 App | PCPCU). ~Justification by Faith, Lutherans and Catholics
51 App | 68f; VELKD 95) ~- "... a faith centered and forensically
52 App | rightly received only through faith' (para. 28)" (USA, no. 153). ~
53 App | doctrine of justification by faith alone, serves as a criterion
54 App | foster 'the obedience of faith' (Rom. 1:5) in God's saving
55 App | work'. The response of faith is itself brought about
56 App | only in the sense that in faith the heart is involved, when
57 App | Word touches it and creates faith" (LV:E 46f). ~- "Where,
58 App | For 4.3:Justification by Faith and through Grace (paras.
59 App | about justification through faith corresponds to Catholic
60 App | substantially under the one word 'faith' what Catholic doctrine (
61 App | sums up in the triad of 'faith, hope, and love'" (LV:E
62 App | We emphasize that faith in the sense of the first
63 App | prior to the free gift of faith merits justification and
64 App | The Reformers ..understood faith as the forgiveness and fellowship
65 App | Christum). But even if this faith necessarily makes the human
66 App | Christ is sufficient, if 'faith' is understood as 'trust
67 App | infused at the same time: faith, hope and charity" (DH 1530). ~- "
68 App | Protestant interpretation, the faith that clings unconditionally
69 App | without which there can be no faith, does not in itself make
70 App | justification and sanctification, of faith and works, which however
71 App | although this renewal in faith, hope, and love is certainly
72 App | however Canon 20 affirms that faith has salvific power only
73 App | weakness, and the threat to faith and salvation which that
74 App | Reformer's efforts to ground faith in the objective reality
75 App | biblically renewed concept of faith. For a person can certainly
76 App | certainly lose or renounce faith, and self-commitment to
77 App | that - in Luther's words - faith is the assurance of salvation" (
78 App | reference to the concept of faith of Vatican II, see Dogmatic
79 App | no. 5: "'The obedience of faith' ..must be given to God
80 App | certitude (certitudo) of faith which looks alone to Christ
81 App | Lutheran understanding, since faith never reflects on itself,
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