| 单词 | justifying faith |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjustifying faith justifying faith Christian Church (in Protestant theology) faith by which a sinner is alone justified, and which is an unmerited gift of God by grace. ΚΠ 1547 T. Cranmer Certayne Serm. ii. sig. Eiv This sentence: that we be iustified by fayth onely: is not so meant of them, that the sayed iustifiyng fayth is alone in man, without true repentaunce, hope, charitie, dread and feare of God, at any tyme or ceason. 1758 J. Wesley Let. 2 May (1931) IV. 17 By faith we mean ‘the evidence of things not seen’; by justifying faith, a divine evidence or conviction that ‘Christ loved me and gave Himself for me’. 1894 W. G. T. Shedd in Dogmatic Theol. III. 455 The creeds, both Lutheran and Reformed, teach that justifying faith is working faith. 2010 S. E. Schreiner Are you Alone Wise? v. 228 The joyful, experiential, and purifying effect of justifying faith. < as lemmas |
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