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Tag Archives: salvation
The Grand Question: Hooker, Newman, and the Council of Trent
The justification of sinners—this is “the grand question which hangeth yet in controversy between us and the Church of Rome.” Thus declared the great Anglican Divine Richard Hooker. Hooker notes that Anglicans and Catholics agree on many points about justification. … Continue reading
Luther, Catholicism, and Justification by Faith
In his book The Spirit and Forms of Protestantism, the great Catholic scholar Louis Bouyer, himself a convert from Lutheranism, describes Martin Luther’s understanding of justifying faith: Salvation is a grace, a gift of God, not the work of man. … Continue reading
Posted in Grace, Justification & Theosis
Tagged Catholicism, faith, grace, justification by faith, Martin Luther, salvation, sola fide, sola gratia, synergism
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The Meaning of Protestant Theology
by Phillip Cary, Ph.D. When Rodney Clapp, the editor to whom I pitched the idea of my new book, originally suggested the title The Meaning of Protestant Theology, I was a bit nonplussed. I knew the central concept of the … Continue reading
Posted in Theology
Tagged anxiety, Conditional promise, faith, gospel, Jesus Christ, justification by faith, Martin Luther, salvation, unconditional promise
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Salvation in Christ: The Orthodox Approach
by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware Let me begin with a question that was put to me sometime ago in the railway train. A person sitting opposite fixed me with a piercing gaze and said, “Are you saved?” Now how did I … Continue reading
Posted in Theology
Tagged atonement, Christ, God, Kallistos Ware, Orthodoxy, sacrifice, salvation, substitutionary atonement
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Pascha and the Apokatastasis of Judas Iscariot
But what about the Iscariot‽ The fate of Judas is the challenge most often posed to anyone who dares to proclaim the greater hope. Christians have long debated whether few or many will be saved. St John Chrysostom appears to have been … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Eschatology, Preaching
Tagged apocatastasis, damnation, election, hell, Jesus Christ, Judas Iscariot, salvation, universal salvation, universalism
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Vicarious Faith, Tom Torrance, and a Few Memories
It’s not often these days that Eclectic Orthodoxy gets noticed, but over at Reformissio, Jonathan Kleis mentioned me in his recent article “Athanasius, T. F. Torrance and the Vicarious Humanity of Christ,” and I would be remiss if I did not … Continue reading
Posted in T. F. Torrance
Tagged assurance, Athanasius, church fathers, faith, Jesus Christ, justification, salvation, Thomas Torrance, vicarious humanity
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Oecumenical Grace: The Protestant Gospel
Compared to the previous chapters in The Theology of Grace and the Oecumenical Movement, the chapter devoted to the Protestant understanding of grace is too brief and to my mind unsatisfactory. In the ecumenical dialogue from which this book arose, … Continue reading
Ruminating Romans: Is faith a condition of salvation?
Let us assume for the moment that the Pauline phrase pistis Christou is rightly translated “faith in Christ.” What then does it mean? What is its function within the theology of St Paul? In classical Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox exegesis, … Continue reading
