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Article: The Joint Declaration, method, and the hermeneutics of ecumenical consensus.(Lutheran-Roman Catholic Joint Declaration on Justification by Faith)
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- Journal of Ecumenical Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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The Lutheran-Roman Catholic Joint Declaration on Justification by Faith (1) marks a significant advance in ecumenical consensus on the primacy of God's gratuitous gift of grace, a central question in the dispute that led to the rending of the Western church in the sixteenth century. The Declaration itself suggests that many other contentious issues relating to the economy of salvation--in particular as they pertain to the saving work of God in the life of the church, its ministry, and its sacraments--must now be reexamined in light of this basic consensus on fundamental truths (43). Further, the doctrinal expression and the catechetical teaching of both Catholic and ...