Newman and Justification: Newman's via media 'doctrine of the justifying Presence'

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Newman and Justification: Newman’s via media ‘doctrine of the justifying Presence’
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
	The Shape of the Lectures on Justification
	The Shape of This Study
1: A Debate Over Justification
	Meriting Eternal Life
		Merit in Augustine of Hippo
		Merit in Thomas Aquinas
		Merit in the Via Moderna
		Luther’s Rejection of Merit
	Luther’s Theology of Justification
		The Distinction between Justification and Renewal
	Roman Catholicism on Justification
		Inherent Righteousness
	Roman Catholicism and Protestantism
	The Nature of Justifying Righteousness
2: Newman’s Lectures on Justification
	Controversy over Justification
	‘Popular Protestantism’ and ‘Mere Imputation’
		Radical Evangelicalism
	‘The Anglican Via Media’
	‘The Catholic System of Doctrine’
	A Trinitarian Grammar of Justification
3: Newman’s Via Media of Justification
	A Via Media Between Two Extremes
	‘Popular Protestantism’
		Faith in Popular Protestantism
		Faith in the Lutheran Divines
		Faith and Works in Luther and Melanchthon
	‘Romanism’
		Newman’s View of ‘Romanism’
	Newman’s Affinity to Romanism
		Augustine and Luther
	A False Via Media?
4: The Meaning of the Word ‘Justification’
	The Grammar of Justification and Renewal
		The Question of Moral Law
		The Relation of Justification to Renewal
		God’s Declaration of Righteousness
		Justification Is Distinct from Renewal
		Justification Causes Renewal
	Justification as Renewal
	Christ’s Self-Communication as ‘Righteousness’
		Two Meanings of ‘Righteousness’ in Protestantism
		The Shape of Participation in Newman
	A Summary of Newman’s Argument
5: ‘The Doctrine of the Justifying Presence’
	‘The Justifying Presence’
		The Theology of the Justifying Presence
	A Supernatural Gift
		A Crucifying Presence
	Imparted Righteousness
		Actual Righteousness as ‘Adherent’
		A Losable Presence
		Justification Old and New
	The Justifying Mission of the Spirit
		Recapitulation in Christ
6: Justifying Faith, Sacraments, and Works
	‘The Office of Justifying Faith’
		Justifying Faith as Instrument and Symbol
		Faith and the Ordo Salutis
	‘The Nature of Justifying Faith’
		Fides Apprehensiva
		The High Church Teaching of Faith
	Justifying Sacramental Rites and Works
		‘Justification by Sacraments’
		Justification by ‘Gospel Works’
		Faith as Habit (Habitus)
		Luther Misunderstood?
		‘The Remedy of Post-Baptismal Sin’
	‘Legalism’
		Preaching Conversion Experience
	Newman’s Interpretation of the Articles and Homilies
7: The Formal Cause of Justification
	Aristotelian Causality
	The Form of the Soul’s Righteousness
	The Holy Spirit as the Formal Cause
	A Duplex Iustitia of Imputed and Actual Righteousness
		Duplex Iustitia in the English Church
	‘Proper’ and ‘Improper’ Forms of Justification
	Newman and The Council of Trent
	Newman’s Achievement
8: Ecumenical Prospect
	Newman and the New Perspective
	The Priority of Uncreated Grace
	Newman and the Joint Declaration on Justification
		Trinitarian Theology in the Joint Declaration
	Forensic Justification Today
		Points of Agreement and Disagreement
	Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index