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Front Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Preface 8 List of abbreviations 13 1. Justification: the emergence of a concept 16 1.1. Semantic aspects of the concept of justification 21 1.2. Paul and the shaping of the Christian tradition 36 1.3. The pre-Augustinian tradition 47 1.4. The fountainhead: Augustine of Hippo 53 2. The Middle Ages: the consolidation of the doctrine 70 2.1. The nature of justification 74 2.2. The righteousness of God 87 2.3. The subjective appropriation of justification 107 2.4. Justification and the sacraments 132 2.5. The concept of grace 143 2.6. The concept of merit 153 2.7. The dialectic between the two powers of God 165 2.8. The relation between predestination and justification 173 2.9. The critique of the role of supernatural habits in justification 191 2.10. The medieval schools of thought on justification 201 3. Protestantism: the Reformation debates on justification 223 3.1. Forerunners of the Reformation doctrines of justification? 225 3.2. Luther’s discovery of the ‘righteousness of God’ 233 3.3. Luther’s mature theology of justification 238 3.4. Justification in early Lutheranism, 1516–1580 250 3.5. Early Reformed theology, 1519–1560 263

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Alister E. McGrath
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