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 ...

Sacred Scripture says that Phinehas was justified by works, just as Abraham was (James 2:21-22 below): Psalms 106:30-31 (RSV) Then Phinehas stood up and interposed, and the plague was stayed. And that ...

When the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them under the law ...

This column is the second in a series of 10 explaining salvation from the historic Christian viewpoint. Nine different aspects of salvation were introduced last month. This month, the first of the ...

The fourth congress of the Lutheran World Federation, largest church meeting ever convened in Helsinki, opened with a service of worship which was attended by Dr. Urho Kekkonen, president of the ...

During his general audience on Nov. 26, Pope Benedict XVI continued his series of catecheses on St. Paul. He spoke about the consequences deriving from justification by faith and by the action of the ...

Romans 3 Human sin and depravity; justification through faith and not through observance of the Law. Romans 4 Abraham was saved through faith not through the Law (circumcision). Romans 7 Human beings ...

We cannot be again the church (or the society) we were or thought we were, but we can become the church (and the society) that we are called to become. Recently, I listened to a series of ...