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	Justification (theology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Christian theology, justification is God's act making a sinner righteous before Him by His grace, received through the faith given to the person by God, for Christ's sake, because of his life, death, and resurrection.
		The relationship of justification to atonement, the expiation of sins.
		In the Catholic religion, justification is produced through the sacraments, and must be intitated by the sacrament of baptism or the desire for it (Council of Trent, Canon 4).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Justification_(theology) (2521 words)

	Sound of Grace Vol 5 No 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We must not confound justification with the doctrine of sanctification, for though inseparably connected, they are quite distinct and widely different, and ought, when we are treating of the way of a sinner's acceptance with God, to be kept apart.
		Justification respects the person in a legal sense, is a single act of grace, and terminates in a change of state.
		Justification, then, is a change of state in the eye of the law and of the lawgiver.
	www.soundofgrace.com /apr99/just-chs.htm (2146 words)

	The Shape of Justification
		This event, which from one point of view is their 'justification', is therefore from another their 'salvation': their rescue from the corruption of death, which for Paul is the result of sin.
		'Justification' is thus the declaration of God, the just judge, that someone is (a) in the right, that their sins are forgiven, and (b) a true member of the covenant family, the people belonging to Abraham.
		'Justification' is the declaration which God at once makes, that all who share this faith belong to Christ, to his sin-forgiven family, the one family of believing Jews and believing Gentiles together, and are assured of final glorification.
	www.thepaulpage.com /Shape.html (2987 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Justification
		Justification denotes that change or transformation in the soul by which man is transferred from the state of original sin, in which as a child of Adam he was born, to that of grace and Divine sonship through Jesus Christ, the second Adam, our Redeemer (l.c., cap.iv: "Justificatio impii.
		In the New Law this justification cannot, according to Christ's precept, be effected except at the fountain of regeneration, that is, by the baptism of water.
		The process of justification is then brought to a close by the baptism of water, inasmuch as by the grace of this sacrament the catechumen is freed from sin (original and personal) and its punishments, and is made a child of God.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08573a.htm (4703 words)

	Learn more about The justification of the state in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		So we could, but will not, spend a few paragraphs each on the justification of the state, the purpose or function of government, the proper form of government, what the law is, and other basic issues in political philosophy.
		Now let's get clear about what the question at issue is. I very imprecisely put it as: "What is the justification of the state?" But as you should know by now, the first way of asking a philosophical question that comes to mind is bound to be woefully imprecise.
		The first thing to observe is that the state, or government, is not some totally monolithic "leviathan" (to use Thomas Hobbes's term), a single entity with a single mind and a single will -- even though words like "the state" and "the government" invite us to think of it that way.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/th/the_justification_of_the_state.html (1542 words)

	Scripture Catholic - JUSTIFICATION
		Justification is based on what we do, which means “works.” Notice that there is nothing about “false faith.” The hearers may have faith, but they need to accompany their faith by works, or they will not be justified.
		Justification does not happen all at once, and is not an external declaration.
		Justification is freely given by God through faith, hope, love and the sacraments of the Church (here, baptism).
	www.scripturecatholic.com /justification.html (7771 words)

	Justification (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		As regards its nature, it is the judicial act of God, by which he pardons all the sins of those who believe in Christ, and accounts, accepts, and treats them as righteous in the eye of the law, i.e., as conformed to all its demands.
		In addition to the pardon (q.v.) of sin, justification declares that all the claims of the law are satisfied in respect of the justified.
		Justification is not the forgiveness of a man without righteousness, but a declaration that he possesses a righteousness which perfectly and for ever satisfies the law, namely, Christ's righteousness (2 Cor.
	christiananswers.net /dictionary/justification.html (284 words)

	Boyce's Abstract of Systematic Theology--Chapter 35
		This usage has given rise to the opinion of some that justification is not simply a judicial act, but that it involves holiness in the one justified, and in the case of justified sinners an infusion of holiness in the act of justification.
		This usage of terms shows plainly that justification is a judicial act of God, in which he does not confer holiness, but only declares the relation occupied to the law by the one who is in Christ.
		The hour of faith was even the period of justification before the incarnation of Christ because of the faith which rested personally upon him through the promises of God, and the acceptance by God of the meritorious work of Christ as though already existing because of the absolute certainty that it would be performed.
	www.founders.org /library/boyce1/ch35.html (3316 words)

	"Justification" by George Downame (1560?-1634)
		For to justification (as we conceive of it) to be granted and sealed in Baptisme, both these are as needfull; as to Sanctification.
		But although sanctification doe alwaies accompany justification; yet wee are not justified by the righteousnesse of sanctification, which is inherent: because it is unperfect, and wee are sanctified but in part, whiles we have the flesh, that is, the body of sinne remaining in us.
		For justification properly is of a sinner, and it consisteth partly in remission of sin.
	www.the-highway.com /justification_Downame.html (5751 words)

	Long Before Luther: Jesus and the Doctrine of Justification
		Israel's apostasy was rooted in their abandonment of justification by faith alone: "For not knowing about God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God" (Rom.
		As noted earlier, when justification is mingled with sanctification, the grounds for justification becomes the sinner's own imperfect righteousness rather than the perfect righteousness of Christ.
		As Packer wrote, "The doctrine of justification by faith is like Atlas: it bears a world on its shoulders, the entire evangelical knowledge of saving grace." The difference between Rome and the Reformers is not theological hair-splitting.
	www.gty.org.uk /articles/justification.htm (3682 words)

	Justification
		Interest in justification varies according to the weight given to the scriptural insistence that man's relation to God is determined by law and sinners necessarily stand under his wrath and condemnation.
		Justification (noun), denotes "the act of pronouncing righteous, justification, acquittal"; its precise meaning is determined by that of the verb dikaioo, "to justify" (see B); it is used twice in the Ep.
		Justification (noun), has three distinct meanings, and seems best described comprehensively as "a concrete expression of righteousness"; it is a declaration that a person or thing is righteous, and hence, broadly speaking, it represents the expression and effect of dikaiosis (No. 1).
	mb-soft.com /believe/text/justific.htm (4523 words)

	8. Of Justification.
		More is required for justification than for pardon; the blood of Christ was, sufficient to procure pardon, and did procure it: but to the justification of a sinner, the holiness of the human nature of Christ, the perfect obedience of his life, and his bloodshed, and sufferings of death, are and must be imputed.
		The doctrine of justification by the righteousness of Christ is a doctrine of great importance; the apostle speaks of it as if the essence of the gospel lay in it; and calls the opposite to it, justification by the works of the law, another gospel; (see Gal.
		The matter and form of justification, the righteousness of Christ imputed: the matter of justification, or that for the sake of which a sinner is justified, is the righteousness of Christ; the form and manner in which it is made over to such an one, and becomes his, is by imputation.
	www.pbministries.org /books/gill/Doctrinal_Divinity/Book_6/book6_08.htm (4456 words)

	Foundationalist Theories of Epistemic Justification
		Justification may have foundations but only because we end a regress of justification with propositions that are known—the evidential foundational on which all justified belief rests is knowledge (186).
		If foundationalists are united in their conviction that there must be a kind of justification that does not depend on the having of other justified beliefs, they nevertheless disagree radically among themselves as to how to understand noninferential justification.
		Noninferential justification is, after all, a kind of justification and if the impossibility of error is essential to noninferential justification, it may be more plausible to locate the source of infallibility in a special kind of justification available in support of a belief.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/justep-foundational (5994 words)

	Council of Trent: Canons on Justification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Justification is by Grace Alone: Decree on Justification: chapter 8; Canon 10.
		Justification by Faith Alone is false: Decree on Justification: chapter 11; Canons 9, 29.
		Justification and sanctification are joined together, caused by Jesus Christ's Passion on the Cross and God's grace, and accepted freely by man. Faith, hope, and charity are also infused in this justification: Decree on Justification: Chapter 7.
	ic.net /~erasmus/RAZ195.HTM (1338 words)

	The Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man: Of Justification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And since justification is its first memorable effect, it will by no means be improper to speak of it now, and that with the greater accuracy, as it so nearly concerns the whole of religion, that we stumble not in explaining this article.
		This justification is indeed very different from that other, of which we shall presently treat, wherein the person is absolved from sins, whereof he is really guilty, and which are forgiven him on Christ's account.
		But that those acts of love, holiness, and conversion, concur with faith to justification, and are included in justifying faith, as such, is a strange way of speaking to reformed ears, nor agreeable to scripture, which always, in the matter of justification, sets faith in opposition to all works whatever.
	members.aol.com /Graceordained/witsius.html (12211 words)

	Justification
		Justification is a forensic term, opposed to condemnation.
		In addition to the pardon of sin, justification declares that all the claims of the law are satisfied in respect of the justified.
		Justification is not the forgiveness of a man without righteousness, but a declaration that he possesses a righteousness which perfectly and for ever satisfies the law, namely, Christ's righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21; Romans 4:6-8).
	www.godandscience.org /doctrine/justify.html (1071 words)

	Justification
		The term Thas become familiar--"Justification by faith only." That they are in a state of justification, or justified, is true of all who believe, who exercise faith.
		Justification in its essence is a legal or forensic term, a term that belongs to the realm of the Law Court.
		Such, then, is the meaning of justification, and it is entirely the action of God.
	www.eternallifeministries.org /justification.htm (712 words)

	Justification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the album of the same name by Justin Timberlake, see Justified (album).
		In epistemology, justification of a belief is what renders it worth believing in terms of its probable truth.
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Justification (96 words)

	Finney's Systematic Theology--1851 Edition--Lecture LVI
		That gospel justification is not to be regarded as a forensic or judicial proceeding.
		The vicarious sufferings or atonement of Christ is a condition of justification, or of the pardon and acceptance of penitent sinners.
		Those who hold that the atonement and obedience of Christ were and are the ground of the justification of sinners, in the sense of the payment of their debt, regard all the grace in the transaction as consisting in the atonement and obedience of Christ, and exclude grace from the act of justification.
	truthinheart.com /EarlyOberlinCD/CD/Finney/Theology/st56.htm (9326 words)

	Forensic Justification on Trial
		Gospel justification is the justification of sinners; it is, therefore, naturally impossible and a most palpable contradiction, to affirm that the justification of a sinner, or of one who has violated the law, is a forensic or judicial justification.
		That only is, or can be a legal or forensic justification that proceeds upon the ground of its appearing that the justified person is guiltless, or, in other words, that he has not violated the law, that he has done only what he had a legal right to do.
		Gospel justification is not in the legal sense; rather, it is "apart from the law" Rom.
	www.stopsinning.net /Forensic.htm (975 words)

	Justification by Faith Alone. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is objected to the doctrine of justification by faith, that it abolishes the necessity of good works, and relieves from the obligation to perform them.
		Hence works performed before justification, however useful they may be to society and though they may deserve the approbation of men, are not really and in the judgment of God, good works.
		It is objected to justification, as conferring an eternally valid title to life, that it destroys the motives to watchfulness and diligence.
	www.pcea.asn.au /tyre_jus.html (2725 words)

	Public Justification
		Another point of contrast is with those approaches to politics which think that it is mistaken--perhaps corrupt--to seek the kind of stasis (however temporary) that seems to be implied in the idea that some determinate regime might be publicly justifiable and hence legitimate.
		On this account, the main mechanism for facilitating the achievement of public justification would have to be coercive; whether actually or from some normatively-loaded perspective that corrects for ideological distortion, people's interests are irreconcilable and hence can be brought only by coercion into sufficient alignment to support a claim to public justification.
		On the one hand, the maximizing conception of public justification suggests a negotiation between parties in search of a stable equilibrium of opposed forces--each has been assigned, by a regime, as much as s/he can be assigned consistently with the need to assign enough to every party to secure h/er compliance.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/justification-public (3354 words)

	Certain Doubts » justification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stew Cohen once argued that, though the language of justification regarding action was part of ordinary language, the language of justification regarding belief is not.
		You have settled justification when your total evidence justifies your belief and also justifies you in thinking that your belief is justified, true, and ungettiered (i.e., your justification is not accidentally related to the truth of your belief in the way that leads to the intuition that you don’t know).
		Sosa raises the problem of the speckled hen for Fumerton’s account of justification, an account that depends on direct acquaintance with experiential states and the with the relationship of correspondence between these states and certain facts.
	bengal-ng.missouri.edu /~kvanvigj/certain_doubts/index.php?cat=2 (3173 words)

	Justification, by Abraham Kuyper
		of "justification by faith" boldly and clearly in opposition to the "meritorious works of Rome." "justification by faith" was in those days the shibboleth of the heroes of faith, Martin Luther in the van.
		Regarding the question, how justification differs, on the one hand, from "regeneration," and, on the other, from "calling and conversion," we answer that justification emphasizes the idea of right.
		It is a denial of justification in toto; and such denial is essentially mutiny and rebellion against God, a withdrawing of oneself from the authority of one's legal sovereign.
	homepage.mac.com /shanerosenthal/reformationink/akjust.htm (3968 words)

	JUSTIFICATION
		Justification may seem complicated at first, but it is as simple as a child obeying his father because he has faith in his father to save and protect him.
		The background for our understanding of our Justification is not the Roman courtroom, but instead, the family covenant bonds that God had made with Adam, Noah, and Abraham, Etc. This does not call us to a lesser standard, because a father demands more from his son than a judge does from a defendant.
		The Protestant view of Justification is one of legal fiction, where God just pretends that the sinner is cleansed because of Christ, whereas the Catholic view is that of a reality.
	members.aol.com /johnprh/justification.html (6276 words)

	TheatrGROUP Method Acting Procedures-Justification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I referred to the term "justification" in the previous section about "Moment-to-Moment" by stating that I prefer to let the actors block their own scenes in most cases, because I feel the actors are well trained enough to justify where they are and what they are doing on the stage.
		The Justification Exercise requires the actor to jump and move around the stage in "abandonment", and when the instructor says, "Freeze!", the actor is asked to justify what he is doing in the position in which he has found himself.
		The energy levels in the workshop are quite high at the end of a round of justification exercises.
	www.theatrgroup.com /methodL (572 words)

	Justification: The gift of innocence
		If God's grace is the source of the gift of justification, then "the redemption which is in Christ Jesus" is the means by which the gift is given to us.
		The emphasis in justification is innocence based on guilt assigned to another; the emphasis in redemption is freedom based on the payment of another.
		Note that justification comes through the redemption that is "in" Christ.
	www.pbc.org /dp/grant/life/life01.html (4058 words)

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