Editor’s note
Editor Brian Huizinga's introduction to a special issue of the Standard Bearer devoted to the doctrine of justification by faith alone, the central doctrine of the Reformation. The issue addresses this doctrine in light of recent schism within the PRCA and aims to help readers understand and experience the peace that comes from embracing the Reformed understanding of justification as the heart of the gospel.
Where were you in 1987? That was the last time the Standard Bearer devoted an entire issue -- the special Reformation issue -- to the doctrine of justification by faith alone. It is high time we do it again, especially since the PRCA has endured a schism in which the doctrine was and is contended. Having recently commemorated God's grace in the sixteenth-century Reformation, our writers take up many of the important aspects of this doctrine regarded by the Reformers as the heart of the...
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