freeborn | ελεύθερος on Nostr: > It may be thought by some that the subject of justification is trite and exhausted; ...

> It may be thought by some that the subject of justification is trite and exhausted; that, as one of the ‘commonplaces’ of theology, it was conclusively determined and settled at the era of the Reformation; and that nothing new or interesting can now be introduced into the discussion of it.>
> But … may it not be said that, to a large class of minds in the present age, nothing could well be more new than the old theology of the Reformation? The gospel is older than Luther; but to every succeeding generation it is still new—good news from God—as fresh now as when it first sprung from the fountain of Inspiration. >
> … The doctrine of justification, by grace, through faith in Christ, is the old doctrine of the Reformation, and the still older doctrine of the gospel; yet the vivid apprehension of its meaning and the cordial reception of its truth must be a new thing in the experience of everyone when he is first enabled to realize and to believe it.’

quoting nevent1q…yh9t

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Perhaps the greatest book ever written on the doctrine of Justification: James Buchanan, [The Doctrine of Justification](https://www.heritagebooks.org/products/the-doctrine-of-justification-buchanan.html) (1866)

I cannot recommend this too highly.

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