tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17617194.post3794825159086853140..comments2024-03-07T06:52:34.516+00:00Comments on Exiled Preacher: Return to Rome by Francis J. Beckwith - A Protestant response: part 2Guy Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09184743462264437085noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17617194.post-5585104080556199052009-10-30T19:09:25.702+00:002009-10-30T19:09:25.702+00:00David,
I'm familiar with McGrath's work, ...David,<br /><br />I'm familiar with McGrath's work, but I haven't read <i>Iustitia Dei</i>. I refer you to Philip Eveson's assessment in <i>The Great Exchange</i> - available online. Copy n' paste this url int your browser:<br /><br />http://www.the-highway.com/justificationTOC_Eveson.html<br /><br />See:<br /><br />Part Two: Evangelicals and Rome, <br /><br />Justification and Unity. <br /><br />I hope that helps.Guy Davieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09184743462264437085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17617194.post-6354106820072448832009-10-30T16:56:33.098+00:002009-10-30T16:56:33.098+00:00Hello Guy,
I would be very interested in your tho...Hello Guy,<br /><br />I would be very interested in your thoughts on Dr. McGrath’s assessment of Trent’s Canon XI (see <a href="http://articulifidei.blogspot.com/2009/10/james-white-hes-not-really-like-pope-so.html" rel="nofollow">THIS THREAD</a> for quote from <i>Iustitia Dei</i>.) Although I would like to acknowledge upfront that my question lies a bit outside of the actual scope of your review, recent threads posted by Dr. Beckwith at his <i>Return To Rome</i> blog suggest that he endorses McGrath’s take, and as such, my question seems germane.<br /><br />Grace and peace,<br /><br />DavidDavid Waltzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966083488813749052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17617194.post-48233675027867568492009-10-30T00:21:33.098+00:002009-10-30T00:21:33.098+00:00I would addend:
As for the Lutheran account of ju...I would addend:<br /><br />As for the Lutheran account of justification - we are justified by God, therefore we do not need to justify ourselves - this makes us free and only in freedom are we able to act in the world. That's the issue - that's why 'faith without works is dead' - because freedom is the result of salvation and true freedom can only result in action.<br /><br />The problem with current evangelical accounts of salvation is that they miss the fact that salvation is through faith and faith "is the reality of things being hoped for" which means precisely living out a life in which you do not build your own account of reality. Unfortunately, we evangelicals all too quickly 'fill in' the faithful life with our own accounts of reality and, precisely by filling out our lives with theological accounts of reality, forsake the freedom which is ours. That is why Beckwith is right - the worst forms of evangelicalism technically require faith to appear alongside works - to 'justify' man. That is precisely to miss the point.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04051242488196178369noreply@blogger.com