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501 Pre, 5 | explication are no longer the occasion for doctrinal condemnations. ~
502 Pre, 2 | also from the beginning occupied an important place in the
503 1, 11 | resurrection (Rom 6:5). It occurs in the reception of the
504 Pre (8) | Lehrverurteilungen - kirchentrennend?'," Ökumenische Rundschau 44 (1995): 99-
505 App | longer cuts that person off from God; in Tridentine
506 App | whole self freely to God, offering 'the full submission of
507 5, 43 | consensus we have reached offers a solid basis for this clarification.
508 App | teachings, practices, and offices should so function as to
509 Pre, 2 | an important place in the official Lutheran-Roman Catholic
510 Pre, 3 | dialogue reports have been officially received by the churches.
511 Pre (8) | im Gespräch, Die ersten offiziellen Stellungnahmen aus den evangelischen
512 Pre (2) | Rector et judex super omnia genera doctrinarum" Weimar
513 4, 36 | have faith is to entrust oneself totally to God19, who liberates
514 5, 40 | are in their difference open to one another and do not
515 4, 21 | as sinners they actively oppose God and his saving action.
516 2, 13 | 13.Opposing interpretations and applications
517 4, 29 | also sinners and that their opposition to God is truly sin, they
518 App | the concept of merit, in order to express the responsibility
519 4, 32 | the distinction and right ordering of law and gospel is essential
520 3, 18 | which constantly serves to orient all the teaching and practice
521 1, 9 | described in various ways, among others: "for freedom Christ has
522 App | the commandments of God; otherwise it would apply to us." ~-
523 1, 10 | Justification becomes ours through Christ Jesus "whom
524 Pre, 4 | may be informed about the overall results of this dialogue
525 App | it is something that is owed - not because of our merits
526 App | Karl Lehmann and Wolfhart Pannenberg, Minneapolis, 1990 (hereafter:
527 App | hereafter: USA). ~Position Paper of the Joint Committee of
528 Pre (8) | 102; See also the position papers which underlie this resolution,
529 4, 30 | commandments, for they must receive pardon and peace in the Sacrament
530 1, 12 | confess their sins (1 Jn 1:9), participate in Christ's body and blood,
531 Pre (9) | self-understandings of the participating churches, without intending
532 App | contest the full personal participation in believing; rather it
533 2, 13 | do not apply to today's partner.~
534 App | Doctrine of Justification~In parts 3 and 4 of the "Joint Declaration"
535 4, 21 | person can only receive (mere passive) justification, they mean
536 App | The strict emphasis on the passivity of human beings concerning
537 Pre, 7 | do they disavow their own past. On the contrary, this Declaration
538 App | same time' (simul iustus et peccator), Roman Catholics think
539 App | Christ has life (sola fide per Christum). But even if this
540 App | righteousness is always perfect; compared with it the works
541 1, 9 | prominence in the Reformation period. ~
542 1, 8 | believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life" (
543 App | of 4.7: growth in grace, perseverance in righteousness received
544 Pre, 1 | character. From the Reformation perspective, justification was the crux
545 1, 12 | for his good pleasure" (Phil 2:12f). But the good news
546 1 (10)| Fitzmyer and Jerome D. Quinn (Philadelphia; New York:1982), pp. 124-
547 App | real sense'; in Lutheran phraseology, it is peccatum regnatum, '
548 App | and forensically conceived picture of justification is of major
549 App | Christians as stated in many places of the confessions.. If
550 1, 12 | and to work for his good pleasure" (Phil 2:12f). But the good
551 5, 42 | justification. Some were not simply pointless. They remain for us "salutary
552 App | DH). ~Evaluation of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian
553 4, 19 | salvation. The freedom they possess in relation to persons and
554 2, 13 | theology and dogma, the post-Vatican II ecumenical dialogue has
555 App | to any preconditions or postconditions. The doctrine of justification
556 1, 12 | from within and without by powers and desires (Rom 8:35-39;
557 4, 29 | Creator (Deut 6:5; Mt 22:36-40 pr.). This contradiction to
558 App | from it and take seriously, practically, and personally the objective
559 App | of the faithful and the praise and honor of the heavenly
560 App | justified, who therefore must pray daily to God for forgiveness" (
561 Pre | Preamble~
562 4, 25 | whatever in the justified precedes or follows the free gift
563 App | structures, and traditions precisely because its counterpart
564 App | able to tie down to any preconditions or postconditions. The doctrine
565 4, 20 | that persons "cooperate" in preparing for and accepting justification
566 4, 31 | gospel "apart from works prescribed by the law" (Rom 3:28).
567 4, 22 | forgiveness of sin and the saving presence of God himself. Because
568 Pre, 6 | is not a new, independent presentation alongside the dialogue reports
569 4, 38 | righteousness that comes from God is preserved and communion with Christ
570 4, 30 | which comes from sin and presses toward sin. Since, according
571 4, 28 | to the power of sin still pressing its attacks (cf. Rom 6:12-
572 3, 15 | sinners. The foundation and presupposition of justification is the
573 2, 13 | the sixteenth century a principal cause of the division of
574 App | Lutherans, that nothing prior to the free gift of faith
575 4, 26 | which the renewal of life proceeds, for it comes forth from
576 App | 7: "Consequently, in the process of justification, together
577 App | point of view - fundamental progress in the ecumenical dialogue
578 1, 9 | which came into particular prominence in the Reformation period. ~
579 App | trust in the promise' (fides promissionis)" (LV:E 50). ~- Cf. The
580 App | the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity of the Study
581 App | efficacy of the absolution pronounced in the sacrament of penance,
582 4, 30 | all that is sin "in the proper sense" and that is "worthy
583 5, 43 | our churches. Here it must prove itself. In this respect,
584 App | salvation "can even less provide grounds for mutual objection
585 4, 30 | to God does not merit the punishment of eternal death17 and does
586 App | contradiction to God' and thus qualifies it as sin" (VELKD 82,29-
587 1 (10)| Fitzmyer and Jerome D. Quinn (Philadelphia; New York:
588 App | VELKD 84ff; cf. also the quotations for 4.3) ~- "By justification
589 1, 10 | death for our trespasses and raised for our justification" (
590 App | Lukas Vischer, New York/Ramsey, Geneva, 1984, 241-247. ~
591 App | question a considerable rapprochement is reached if LV:E calls
592 App | is 'no longer sin in the real sense'; in Lutheran phraseology,
593 App | no. 160). ~- "For that reason, the doctrine of justification -
594 App | forgiveness of sins a person receives, through Jesus Christ into
595 1, 10 | this righteousness will be reckoned to all who, like Abraham,
596 Pre, 3 | level of ecclesiastical recognition together with the other
597 4, 29 | through the law, however, they recognize that they remain also totally
598 4, 36 | weaknesses and shortcomings. Recognizing his own failures, however,
599 1, 9 | Gal 5:1-13; cf. Rom 6:7), "reconciled to God" (2 Cor 5:18-21;
600 4, 30 | peace in the Sacrament of Reconciliation through the word of forgiveness
601 4, 30 | them in virtue of God's reconciling work in Christ. [See Sources
602 Pre (2) | Rector et judex super omnia genera
603 4, 26 | wholly in their Creator and Redeemer and thus live in communion
604 App | Concerning Canon 26, we refer to the Apology where eternal
605 App | Lutheran-Catholic dialogues~are referred to. They are the following
606 App | righteousness' in Canon 24 refers to the Christian's acceptance
607 Pre (9) | used in this Declaration to reflect the self-understandings
608 App | understanding, since faith never reflects on itself, but depends completely
609 App | Catholics can appreciate the Reformer's efforts to ground faith
610 App | possible for anyone, while he regards himself and his own weakness
611 App | 83f) ~- "Those in whom sin reigns can do nothing to merit
612 4, 21 | not deny that a person can reject the working of grace. When
613 5, 41 | century, in so far as they relate to the doctrine of justification,
614 App | the Reformers is] ..the reliability and sufficiency of God's
615 App | in the absolution ..This reliance can itself be subjectively
616 App | function is continually to remind Christians that we sinners
617 App | person can certainly lose or renounce faith, and self-commitment
618 Pre, 6 | sources shows, it makes repeated reference to them and their
619 4, 29 | Rom 7:17,20), for they repeatedly turn to false gods and do
620 App | justification, for example, repentance, prayer for grace, and desire
621 Pre, 6 | documents to date, let alone a replacement of them. Rather, as the
622 App | biblical or Pauline way of representing God's saving work" (USA,
623 1 (10)| paras. 122-147. At the request of the US dialogue on justification,
624 Pre, 7 | make possible, but also require the churches to examine
625 4, 29 | undivided love which God requires as their Creator (Deut 6:
626 Pre (8) | papers which underlie this resolution, in Lehrverurteilungen im
627 Pre (9) | churches, without intending to resolve all the ecclesiological
628 App | APPENDIX - Resources for the Joint Declaration
629 5, 43 | must prove itself. In this respect, there are still questions
630 Pre, 7 | conviction that in their respective histories our churches have
631 App | the justified person is responsible not to lose the grace received
632 Pre, 7 | this Joint Declaration rests on the conviction that in
633 Pre, 2 | doctrine of justification has retained its special status. Consequently
634 1 (10)| the New Testament, by John Reumann, with responses by Joseph
635 App | Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, no. 5: "'The obedience
636 4, 32 | that the distinction and right ordering of law and gospel
637 1, 12 | and be exhorted to live righteously in accord with the will
638 App | Christ Jesus which can be rightly received only through faith' (
639 1, 10 | Cor 1:30), applying to the risen Lord what Jeremiah proclaimed
640 App | if he did not rely with a rock-like assurance on the forgiveness
641 App | of God - has no essential role in justification, then the
642 1, 10 | In Galatians (3:6) and Romans (4:3-9), Paul understands
643 1, 10 | his saving work have their roots for he is "our Lord, who
644 Pre, 1 | and at the same time the "ruler and judge over all other
645 4, 29 | no longer is a sin that "rules" the Christian for it is
646 Pre (8) | kirchentrennend?'," Ökumenische Rundschau 44 (1995): 99-102; See also
647 Pre (8) | Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993).~
648 App | doctrine of justification for sacramentology, ecclesiology and ethical
649 1, 10 | whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood,
650 5, 42 | pointless. They remain for us "salutary warnings" to which we must
651 App | between justification and sanctification, of faith and works, which
652 1, 9 | Jesus" (Rom 6:11,23), or "sanctified in Christ Jesus" (cf. 1
653 1, 10 | For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this
654 5 | 5. The Significance and Scope of the Consensus Reached~
655 4, 37 | Jesus and the apostolic Scriptures admonish Christians to bring
656 4, 35 | salvation, but are never secure looking at themselves.~
657 4, 19 | by themselves to God to seek deliverance, of meriting
658 3, 18 | of faith, which are to be seen as internally related to
659 4, 27 | Catholic understanding also sees faith as fundamental in
660 App | which man entrusts his whole self freely to God, offering '
661 App | lose or renounce faith, and self-commitment to God and his word of promise.
662 Pre (9) | Declaration to reflect the self-understandings of the participating churches,
663 4, 28 | contradiction to God within the selfish desires of the old Adam (
664 3, 15 | the triune God. The Father sent his Son into the world to
665 App | it is done in the first sentence of the second paragraph
666 App | our eyes from it and take seriously, practically, and personally
667 5, 42 | thereby taken away from the seriousness of the condemnations related
668 1, 10 | 10.Paul sets forth the gospel as the
669 3, 18 | see themselves as bound by several criteria, they do not deny
670 App | Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven' (Matt.
671 Pre, 1 | defended in its Reformation shape and special valuation over
672 Pre, 7 | contrary, this Declaration is shaped by the conviction that in
673 3, 14 | recent years, has led to a shared understanding of justification.
674 4, 39 | as acceptance by God and sharing in the righteousness of
675 1, 10 | all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Rom
676 4, 36 | upon his own weaknesses and shortcomings. Recognizing his own failures,
677 App | never meant, on the Lutheran side, to contest the full personal
678 App | hierarchy of truth; but both sides agree that the doctrine
679 App | beings cannot ... cast a sideways glance at their own endeavors ...
680 App | doctrine of justification is significant not only as one doctrinal
681 App | sinner at the same time' (simul iustus et peccator), Roman
682 1, 8 | to God's word about human sinfulness (Ps 51:1-5; Dan 9:5f; Eccl/
683 1, 10 | righteousness, "since all have sinned and fall short of the glory
684 Pre (1) | The Smalcald Articles, II,1; Book of
685 Pre (3) | Confession and Luther's Small Catechism among their binding
686 5, 43 | between justification and social ethics. We are convinced
687 App | divine 'monergism' or the sole efficacy of Christ in such
688 5, 43 | we have reached offers a solid basis for this clarification.
689 App | counterpart is 'Christ alone' (solus Christus). He alone is to
690 4, 31 | expressed God's will which is a standard for the conduct of the justified
691 3, 18 | of Christian doctrine. It stands in an essential relation
692 App | today - particularly if we start from the foundation of a
693 App | course apply to Christians as stated in many places of the confessions..
694 3, 14 | explications in particular statements are compatible with it. ~
695 Pre (8) | Gemeinsame Stellungnahme der Arnoldshainer Konferenz,
696 Pre (8) | Die ersten offiziellen Stellungnahmen aus den evangelischen Kirchen
697 Pre, 4 | has therefore come to take stock and to summarize the results
698 4, 34 | threats to their faith, on the strength of Christ's death and resurrection
699 App | justification" (PCPCU 22). ~-"The strict emphasis on the passivity
700 App | s acceptance by God, it strikes to us; for this righteousness
701 5, 43 | Church will continue to strive together to deepen this
702 App | teachings still deserves to be studied further" (PCPCU 96). ~For
703 2, 13 | insights of recent biblical studies and drawing on modern investigations
704 App | This reliance can itself be subjectively uncertain - that the assurance
705 App | God, offering 'the full submission of intellect and will to
706 Pre, 5 | basis of their dialogue the subscribing Lutheran churches and the
707 App | Protestant doctrine understands substantially under the one word 'faith'
708 App | is] ..the reliability and sufficiency of God's promise, and the
709 Pre, 4 | come to take stock and to summarize the results of the dialogues
710 1 (10)| results of this study were summarized in the dialogue report Justification
711 App | following 1 Cor. 13:13) sums up in the triad of 'faith,
712 Pre (2) | Rector et judex super omnia genera doctrinarum"
713 4, 34 | and Sacrament and so be sure of this grace. ~
714 Pre, 5 | cover all that either church teaches about justification; it
715 3, 17 | saving action in Christ: it tells us that as sinners our new
716 4, 35 | Reformers: in the midst of temptation, believers should not look
717 App | 36) says as follows:~"The ten commandments of course apply
718 App | struggle against sinful tendencies. Concupiscence and other
719 App | While Lutherans express this tension with the term 'controlled
720 App | acknowledge the need to test the practices, structures,
721 1, 10 | 4:5) and calls upon the testimony of the Old Testament to
722 3, 18 | and explicates it, is more than just one part of Christian
723 5, 44 | 44.We give thanks to the Lord for this decisive
724 Pre, 3 | Protestant and Catholic theologians in Germany. Some of these
725 App | practices, structures, and theologies of the church by the extent
726 App | peccator), Roman Catholics think the reality of salvation
727 App | is important to Lutheran thinking. ~For 4.6:Assurance of Salvation (
728 App | simply to be viewed and thought about in connection with
729 App | human weakness, and the threat to faith and salvation which
730 4, 34 | weakness and the manifold threats to their faith, on the strength
731 4, 32 | is demand and accusation. Throughout their lives, all persons,
732 App | earn' or are able to tie down to any preconditions
733 3, 18 | things as the one Mediator (1 Tim 2:5f) through whom God in
734 App | to Pauline teaching this topic concerns the Jewish law
735 5, 43 | These include, among other topics, the relationship between
736 App | involved, when the Word touches it and creates faith" (LV:
737 3, 17 | directs us in a special way towards the heart of the New Testament
738 Pre, 2 | 2.For the Lutheran tradition, the doctrine of justification
739 App | practices, structures, and traditions precisely because its counterpart
740 App | VELKD 87-90) ~- "If we translate from one language to another,
741 1, 9 | the New Testament diverse treatments of "righteousness" and "
742 1, 12 | salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at
743 1, 10 | was put to death for our trespasses and raised for our justification" (
744 App | Cor. 13:13) sums up in the triad of 'faith, hope, and love'" (
745 3, 15 | justification is the work of the triune God. The Father sent his
746 App | securitas); but this must not be turned into yet another problem,
747 4, 19 | judgment and are incapable of turning by themselves to God to
748 4, 22 | them an active love. These two aspects of God's gracious
749 App | Christus). He alone is to be ultimately trusted as the one mediator
750 App | can itself be subjectively uncertain - that the assurance of
751 App | farther. They urge that the uncertainty should not merely be endured.
752 App | brought about through the uncoercible word of promise which comes
753 4, 28 | constantly look to God's unconditional justifying grace. They also
754 App | interpretation, the faith that clings unconditionally to God's promise in Word
755 4, 32 | under this accusation which uncovers their sin so that, in faith
756 Pre (8) | der Vereinigten Kirche und des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
757 1, 10 | of the Old Testament to undergird his gospel that this righteousness
758 Pre (8) | the position papers which underlie this resolution, in Lehrverurteilungen
759 4, 30 | deliverance by Christ, they underscore that this inclination in
760 4, 29 | do not love God with that undivided love which God requires
761 4, 23 | forgiveness and that only in union with Christ is one's life
762 3, 18 | Lutherans emphasize the unique significance of this criterion,
763 App | kirchentrennend?, Vatican, 1992, unpublished document (hereafter: PCPCU). ~
764 App | time believe that God is unreliable in his word of promise.
765 4, 32 | the gospel, they will turn unreservedly to the mercy of God in Christ,
766 4, 36 | consider the divine promise untrustworthy. No one may doubt God's
767 App | go a step farther. They urge that the uncertainty should
768 4, 32 | justification. In its theological use, the law is demand and accusation.
769 Pre (9) | The word "church" is used in this Declaration to reflect
770 App | on the forgiveness of God uttered in the absolution ..This
771 Pre, 1 | condemnations are still valid today and thus have a church-dividing
772 4, 31 | commandments retain their validity for the justified and that
773 Pre, 1 | Reformation shape and special valuation over against the Roman Catholic
774 Pre (8) | Deutschland (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993).~
775 5, 43 | there are still questions of varying importance which need further
776 Pre (8) | Arnoldshainer Konferenz, der Vereinigten Kirche und des Deutschen
777 App | merit' were simply to be viewed and thought about in connection
778 4, 30 | forgiveness imparted to them in virtue of God's reconciling work
779 App | Harding Meyer and Lukas Vischer, New York/Ramsey, Geneva,
780 5, 44 | lead us further toward that visible unity which is Christ's
781 4, 30 | God. But when individuals voluntarily separate themselves from
782 App | sense of the biblical term 'wage' or reward" (LV:E 67). ~- "
783 5, 42 | remain for us "salutary warnings" to which we must attend
784 4, 36 | when he looks upon his own weaknesses and shortcomings. Recognizing
785 Pre (2) | omnia genera doctrinarum" Weimar Edition of Luther's Works (
786 App | our churches. It cannot be welcomed enough" (VELKD 95, 20-26;
787 Pre (8) | Nationalkomitees des Lutherischen Weltbundes zum Dokument 'Lehrverurteilungen -
788 2, 13 | cause of the division of the Western church and led as well to
789 App | reality of Christ's promise, 'whatsoever you loose on earth?....
790 4, 26 | faith they place their trust wholly in their Creator and Redeemer
791 App | depends completely on God, whose grace is bestowed through
792 1, 12 | the will of God. That is why the Apostle says to the
793 App | a way, that the person's willing acceptance of God's grace -
794 App | evident ..that the Council wishes to establish a link with
795 App | Edited by Karl Lehmann and Wolfhart Pannenberg, Minneapolis,
796 App | to sin and the new man or woman in Christ has life (sola
797 App | also that - in Luther's words - faith is the assurance
798 4, 30 | proper sense" and that is "worthy of damnation" (Rom 8:1)16.
799 1, 9 | justification" are found in the writings of Matthew (5:10; 6:33;
800 3, 14 | conversations of recent years, has led to a shared understanding
801 Pre (8) | Lutherischen Weltbundes zum Dokument 'Lehrverurteilungen -
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