Concordia Theological Monthly
Article Title
Publication Date
1-1-1958
Document Type
Article
Keywords
faith, justification, lutheran, grace, confessions, doctrine, forgiveness, osiander, augsburg, catechism
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
In one of his justly famous Gesammelte Aufsaetze entitled Die Rechtfertigungslehre im Lichte der Geschichte des Protestantis1mus Karl Holl quotes the scholar Lagarde as declaring that justification as a doctrine was dead-this was in 1873 - and that no one lived by it any longer. The far more pressing task, moderns tell us, is to show to modern man that there is a God. Whether there is a God at all is the problem he has to face, not something about God, say, that God justifies. To this criticism of the very raison d’ȇtre of this study we should reply that justification concerns questions which are perennially alive.
Disciplines
Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Recommended Citation
Hamann, Henry P. Jr.
(1958)
"Justification by Faith in Modern Theology,"
Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 29, Article 2.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol29/iss1/2
