Justification by Faith in Modern Theology

Authors

Henry P. Hamann Jr., Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

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