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Justification

How does a guilty sinner stand righteous before God — declared so, or remade?

Justification is the act by which God sets a sinner right with himself, drawing especially on Paul's letters to the Romans and Galatians. Here lies a core Reformation dispute. The Reformers, following Luther, held it to be a forensic declaration — God pronounces the sinner righteous through faith. Catholics, at the Council of Trent, taught a transforming, righteousness-making grace. The 1999 Joint Declaration narrowed but did not erase this difference.

How it traveled

  1. Romans
    Corinth · 67
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  2. Galatians
    Ephesus · 67
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  3. 1 Corinthians
    Ephesus · 67
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  4. Against Heresies: Book IV
    Lyons · 202
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  5. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  6. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  7. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  8. Homilies on Second Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  9. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  10. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  11. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  12. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  13. A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  14. A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  15. A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  16. A Treatise on Nature and Grace
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  17. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  18. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  19. A Treatise on Grace and Free Will
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  20. A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  21. The Enchiridion
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  22. A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  23. Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90)
    Paris · 1274
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  24. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
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  25. Commentary on Galatians
    Wittenberg · 1546
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  26. Discussion: Third Part
    Wittenberg · 1546
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  27. Discussion: Second Part
    Wittenberg · 1546
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  28. Discussion: First Part
    Wittenberg · 1546
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  29. Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It
    Geneva · 1564
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  30. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
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  31. Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church
    Geneva · 1564
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  32. XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvation
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  33. The great christian doctrine of original sin defended
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  34. Seventeen Occasional Sermons
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  35. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  36. Inquiry Concerning Qualification for Communion
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  37. The Wisdom of God Displayed in the Way of Salvation
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  38. Fifteen Sermons. On Various Subjects
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  39. Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  40. Narrative of Surprising Conversions
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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