On Justification through Faith, vol. XIX of Theological Commonplaces
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Overview
Originally published in 1613, On Justification through Faith presents Johann Gerhard’s classic voice on this crucial doctrine. While his theology is, in many respects, nothing new beyond what other Lutherans such as Martin Chemnitz said before him, his perspective is distinctively helpful to modern readers, especially in his dealing of topics not dealt with by previous theologians.
Gerhard’s basic position is that justification is a judicial term, and thus the appropriation of God’s grace through faith alone (justification) is not the transfer of divinity—of the essence of the God-man—or of any qualities (created or divine) from God to the believer, but instead it is a change of status before God. For Gerhard, justification is unthinkable without the real person of Christ being apprehended through faith.
The Theological Commonplaces series is the first-ever English translation of Johann Gerhard's monumental Loci Theologici. Gerhard was the premier Lutheran theologian of the early seventeenth century. Combining his profound understanding of evangelical Lutheran theology with a broad interest in ethics and culture, he produced significant works on biblical, doctrinal, pastoral, and devotional theology. Gerhard interacts with the writings of the church fathers, Luther and his contemporaries, and the Catholic and Calvinist theologians of his day. His 17-volume Loci is regarded as the standard compendium of Lutheran orthodoxy, with topics ranging from the proper understanding and interpretation of Scripture to eschatology.
- Features the first-ever English translation of Johann Gerhard’s monumental Loci Theologici
- Combines profound understanding of evangelical Lutheran theology with a broad interest in ethics and culture
- Contains a glossary of key theological, rhetorical, and philosophical terms
- Title: On Justification through Faith
- Author: Johann Gerhard
- Series: Theological Commonplaces
- Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 529
- Era: era:reformation
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Church › History of doctrines--17th century; Lutheran Church › Doctrines; Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621
- ISBNs: 9780758651402, 0758651406
- Resource ID: LLS:JUSTFAITHGERHARD
- Resource Type: Systematic Theology
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