Thursday, February 2, 2023

Sola Fide (An Historical Defense)


Nathan Busenitz, Long Before Luther: Tracing the Heart of the Gospel From Christ to the Reformation, [Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2017]. Preview. 


George Stanley Faber, The Primitive Doctrine of Justification Investigated: Second Edition, [London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1839].


Thomas C. Oden, The Justification Reader, [Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2002].


Thomas C. Oden, The Good Works Reader, [Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2007].


D. H. Williams, “Justification by Faith: a Patristic Doctrine;” In: Journal of Ecclesiastical History 57.4 (October 2006), pp. 649-667. doi:10.1017/S0022046906008207 


Nick Needham, “Justification in the Early Church Fathers;” In: Bruce L. McCormack, ed., Justification in Perspective: Historical Developments and Contemporary Challenges, [Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006], Ch. 2, pp. 25-53. Preview.


Gerald Bray, “Reformation Invention or Historic Orthodoxy? Justification in the Fathers;” In: Matthew Barrett, ed., The Doctrine on Which the Church Stands or Falls: Justification in Biblical, Theological, Historical, and Pastoral Perspective, [Wheaton: Crossway, 2019], Ch. 18, pp. 563-586. Preview.


Nick Needham, “The Evolution of Justification: Justification in the Medieval Traditions;” In: Matthew Barrett, ed., The Doctrine on Which the Church Stands or Falls: Justification in Biblical, Theological, Historical, and Pastoral Perspective, [Wheaton: Crossway, 2019], Ch. 19, pp. 587-622. Preview.


Michael Horton, Justification: Volume 1, [Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2018]. Preview.


Brian J. Arnold, Justification in the Second Century, [Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017]. Preview. 

Cf. Brian J. Arnold’s Ph.D. Dissertation, “Justification One Hundred Years After Paul,” [Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2013].


Martin Chemnitz, Examination of the Council of Trent: Part I, trans. Fred Kramer, [St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1971], Topic 8, Section 2, pp. 505-513.

 

Jordan Cooper, The Righteousness of One: An Evaluation of Early Patristic Soteriology in Light of the New Perspective on Paul, [Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2013]. Preview.



Individual Theologians.



David F. Wright, “Justification in Augustine;” In: Bruce L. McCormack, ed., Justification in Perspective: Historical Developments and Contemporary Challenges, [Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006], Ch. 3, pp. 55-72. Preview.


Dongsun Cho, “Theological Affinity Between Augustine and Bucer on Justification: A Response to Alister E. McGrath;” In: BSB-Journal.de: Theologische Zeitschrift für Gemeinde und Mission 14 (Dezember 2017), pp. 91-125.


Dongsun Cho, “Divine Acceptance Of Sinners: Augustine’s Doctrine of Justification;” In: Perichoresis 12.2 (2014), pp. 163-184. DOI 10.2478/perc-2014-0010


Nick Needham, “Augustine of Hippo: The Relevance of His Life and Thought Today;” In: SBJT 12/2 (Summer 2008), pp. 38-50.


Zach Howard, “Did Augustine Get Justification Wrong? Reading The Father With The Reformers;” (September 2022), https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/did-augustine-get-justification-wrong. 


Dongsun Cho, “Justification in Marius Victorinus’ Pauline Commentaries: Sola Fide, Solo Christo, and Sola Gratia Dei;” In: JBTM 11.1 (Spring 2014), pp. 3-25.


D. H. Williams,“Defining Orthodoxy in

Hilary of Poitiers’ Commentarium in Matthaeum;” In: Journal of Early Christian Studies 9:2 (2001), pp. 151-171.


Dongsun Cho, “Ambrosiaster on Justification By Faith Alone in His Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles;” In: WTJ 74 (2012), pp. 277-290.


Franz Posset, The Real Luther, [St. Louis: Concordia, 2011].


An Ecumenical Approach.


Donald Fairbairn, “Justification in St. Cyril of Alexandria, with some Implications for Ecumenical Dialogue;” In: Participatio 4 (2013), pp. 123-146. See also: tftorrance.org.



καὶ αὐτός ἐστιν πρὸ πάντων καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκεν ~ Soli Deo Gloria


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