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Ausgabe:

Mai/2018

Spalte:

498–500

Kategorie:

Kirchengeschichte: Alte Kirche, Christliche Archäologie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Arnold, Brian J.

Titel/Untertitel:

Justification in the Second Century.

Verlag:

Berlin u. a.: De Gruyter 2017. XIV, 221 S. = Studies of the Bible and Its Reception, 9. Geb. EUR 99,95. ISBN 978-3-11-047677-4.

Rezensent:

Mark W. Elliott

According to the introduction, the doctrine of justification by faith is not only ›missional‹, it is the main hinge on which all religion turns (Calvin). But no Reformer, not even Luther created it. (Douglas Campbell is wrong to say it is ›modern‹.) A. invokes D. H. Williams’s essay »Justification by Faith alone: a patristic doctrine« JEH 57 (2006), which argues that Hilary of Poitiers broke with the Eastern tradition by establishing that Matthew 20 (the parable of the workers in the vineyard) and agreed with Paul that the reward is the same for all, irrespective of post-baptismal merit. One target of this book is the thesis of T. F. Torrance, namely that the Apos-tolic fathers turned aside from Paul’s doctrine of justifying grace. But, A. argues, there is not a ›gap‹ ...


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