With one voice: The Reformers on justification
Prof. Brian Huizinga examines the remarkable unanimity among the sixteenth-century Reformers on the doctrine of justification by faith alone, contrasting their unified stance on this central gospel truth with their disagreements on other doctrines like the Lord's Supper. This article traces the main lines of Reformed and Lutheran orthodoxy on justification using a three-point framework and celebrates the enduring legacy of the Reformation's recovery of biblical justification doctrine against Roman Catholic corruptions.
At the forefront of the recovery of biblical doctrine in the Reformation of the sixteenth century was the doctrine of justification. In fierce opposition to the Roman Catholic doctrine of justification by faith and works, with all of its accompanying practices, such as the buying and selling of indulgences and the doing of penance, the Reformation restored and advanced the gospel truth of justification by faith alone. What must strike every son and daughter of the Reformation as an...
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