justification by faith and good works

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• Justification — • A biblio ecclesiastical term; which denotes the transforming of the sinner from the state of unrighteousness to the state of holiness and sonship of God Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Justification     Justification …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Justification (theology) — The Harrowing of Hell as depicted by Fra Angelico Rising out of the Protestant Reformation, Justification is the chief article of faith describing God s act of declaring or making a sinner righteous through Christ s atoning sacrifice. The extent …   Wikipedia

• justification — /jus teuh fi kay sheuhn/, n. 1. a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party. 2. an act of justifying: The painter s justification of his failure to… …   Universalium

• Justification —    A forensic term, opposed to condemnation. As regards its nature, it is the judicial act of God, by which he pardons all the sins of those who believe in Christ, and accounts, accepts, and treats them as righteous in the eye of the law, i.e.,… …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

• justification — The establishment by God of a new relationship with mankind. The Protestant Reformation put this term at the heart of theological dispute centred on the epistles of Paul to the Galatians and to the Romans. When God ‘justified’ people, did he make …   Dictionary of the Bible

• works — Used in the NT of human behaviour. ‘Good works’ are the human response to the grace of God; but they do not earn the grace of God. Much controversy since the Reformation has been caused by the Reformers alleging that Catholics sought to earn… …   Dictionary of the Bible

• Olive and Hurley Old School Baptist Church — Olive Hurley Church Olive and Hurley Old School Baptist Church Denomination Primitive Baptist Membership 136 (1832) 119 (1871) 104 (1879) History Former name(s) Baptist Church of Christ at Tongore First Baptist Church in Marbletown First Baptist… …   Wikipedia

• Aquinas and the Sacraments — Aquinas and the Sacraments: The following article is a condensation of the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Contra Gentiles and Summa Theologica. As can be seen, Aquinas relied heavily on Scriptural passages, as well as the writings of… …   Wikipedia

• Lutherans and Lutheranism —     Lutheranism     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Lutheranism     The religious belief held by the oldest and in Europe the most numerous of the Protestant (Protestantism) sects, founded by the …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Jansenius and Jansenism — • The subject of this article lived three quarters of a century later than his namesake. He was born 28 October, 1585, of a Catholic family, in the village of Accoi, near Leerdam, Holland; died at Ypres, 6 May, 1638 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Luther and antisemitism — Martin Luther (1483 1546), a German Reformation leader, had a significant influence on German antisemitism by his harsh anti Jewish statements and writings. In the twentieth century these were used by the Nazis in their antisemitic… …   Wikipedia