Man sins — and is saved. But is he saved through a life of piety and good works, or through abiding faith in Christ as Lord and Savior? The question of justification, which in the theological sense is ...

No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully ...

The doctrine with which we are concerned is both the divine heart of the Gospel and the Gospel for the human heart. To seek an answer to the question, How can a man be just before God? is to be ...

The basic fact of biblical religion is that God pardons and accepts believing sinners (cf. Ps. 32:1–5; 130; Luke 7:47 ff.; 18:9–14; Acts 10:43; 1 John 1:7–2:2). Paul’s doctrine of justification by ...

The doctrine of justification by grace through faith is the heart of Protestant theology. Justification was the driving teaching of the Reformation: Martin Luther wrote in his Smalcald Articles that “ ...

Analysis was founded in 1933 to provide a forum for short discussions of topics in philosophy. It quickly established itself as one of the characteristic journals of philosophy within the analytic ...

Tuesday, Oct. 31, is Reformation Day, the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther, a Roman Catholic priest, wanted a public debate on the Church's practice of ...

A top Lutheran leader has hailed a decision by the world’s Methodist churches to sign on to an agreement that brought Catholics and Lutherans closer together on a key issue that rent them apart at the ...

On Sept. 15, Baptist Pastor Chip Thornton published an article in the Daily Home entitled “Significance of Reformation: What will you say to God?” Thornton wrote the article to explain and insist upon ...