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100	1		_aOden, Thomas C
245	1	4	_aThe Justification Reader
260			_aGrand Rapids, Michigan _bWilliam B. Eerdmans Publishing Company _c2002
300			_a163p _c23 cm.
440		0	_aClassic Christian Readers
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505			_aJustification (Christian theology) 1. The Promise 2. The Heart of the Gospel A. The Special Comfort of God's Free Grace 1. The Unique Blessing of Justification 2. Basic Definitions B. The Centrality of Justification in Christian Teaching 1. The Decisive Baseline of Evangelical Teaching 2. Why Is It a Comforting Doctrine? 3. The Limits of Our Powers of Restitution C. Why a Justification Reader? 1. It Provides a Model for Classic Christian Reasoning 2. Why Is Justification Teaching Especially Pertinent Today? 3. Simplicity 4. On the Genre of the "Reader" 5. Why Have These Texts Remained Shockingly Inaccessible Elsewhere? 6. A Welcoming Note for Orthodox and Catholic Readers PART ONE JUSTIFICATION The Ancient Fathers on Evangelical Justification A. Typical Misconceptions of Classic Christian Teaching on Saving Faith 1. Peacemaking among the Divided Faithful 2. My Simple Thesis 3. Why the Classic Christian Consensus Is Not Properly Described as Either European or Western 4. Why This Presentation of Evidence Is So Urgently Needed amid Uncharitable Polemics among Evangelicals, Liberals, Catholics, and Orthodox Today 5. How Both Evangelical and Liberal Assumptions Have Salvation Teaching Tilted the Perception of Ancient Orthodox Christian 6. Liberal Misconceptions B. The Unexplored Connection: The Fathers Were Not Ignorant of the Pauline Teaching of Justification 1. What Is Meant by "Patristic"? 2. The Unity of the First Five Centuries Contrasted with the Conflict of the Last Five Centuries the Written Word 3. Remembering the Fathers' Continuous Immersion in 4. The Practical Impact 5. Why Dangerous? The Alarming Consequence of the Rediscovery of the Unity of the Body of Christ 6. Why Does This Recognition Have a Painful Edge for Protestants? 7. Can Christian Teaching Be Trusted If It Lacks Scriptural Grounding and an Orthodox Historical Textuary? 8. Ecumenical Dialogue Needs These Arguments 9. Assessing the Joint Declaration 10. The Growing Hunger for Greater Evangelical Unity in the Gospel 11. The Search for Balance and the Hazard of Presenting Too Little Evidence or Too Much 12. Fairly Assessing the Evidence CHAPTER TWO Justification Defined A. Rehearsing the Classic Consensus on Justification 1. What Is Justification? 2. The Way to Consensus 3. Representative Reformed Confessions on Justification 4. The Lutheran Formula of Concord 5. Baptist Confessions 6. Anglican Tradition 7. Wesleyan Traditions 8. Pentecostal Traditions 9. Arguing Consensuality B. Introducing Locus Classicus Patristic Texts on Justification 1. Early Eastern Voices on Justification 2. Early Western Voices on Justification 3. A Case in Point: Consensual Interpretation of Ephesians 2 4. Whether These Voices Harmonize: Modest Objectives on Doctrinal Concurrence C. God's Costly Way of Reestablishing a Right Relation with the Sinner 1. Comparing Old and New Testament Interpretations of Justification 2. Old Testament Anticipations 3. Why Do We So Fiercely Resist Hearing This Good News?
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