justification

SOME THOUGHTS ON COVENANT THEOLOGY AND ON JUSTIFICATION #3 N.T.Wright and the ‘new perspective’ on Paul Rowland S. Ward   One of our younger adult members/readers asked for something on a matter of current discussion in Anglican circles in Sydney and which will have its impact on everyone in due time. Here’s my effort to explain the issues in brief. ‘Justification is an act of God’s free grace in which he pardons all our sins and accepts us as righteous in his sight for the sake of the righteousness of Christ alone, which is credited to us and received by faith alone’ (Shorter Catechism, 33).Read More →

SOME THOUGHTS ON COVENANT THEOLOGY AND ON JUSTIFICATION #1   Rowland S. Ward   The Presbyterian Benner – March 2002   The origins of the doctrine of the Adamic covenant In the early years the Reformation the relationship of God to Adam was not developed in terms of the covenant idea. It was recognised that through Adam sin and death had entered the world and that death had passed on all men since all had sinned (Romans 5:12). However, this was not understood at first to have involved a breaking of a pre-fall covenant in Eden but to have been a natural transmission to Adam’sRead More →