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Newman and Justification examines John Henry Newman''s via media ''doctrine of the justifying presence'' in his Lectures on Justification. T. L. Holtzen contends that Newman put forth his via media doctrine of the justifying presence by employing a trinitarian grammar of divine inhabitation in which the Holy Spirit is the formal cause of justification as a solution to the Reformation debate over justification. Newman sets his via media of justification between the extremes of justification by ''mere imputation'' in ''popular Protestantism'' and that of justification by works-righteousness in ''English Arminianism'' and ''Romanism''. The word ''justification'' means both being declared and being made righteous because the eternal Word is spoken into the soul by the Holy Spirit in justification. Newman identifies this with ''the gift of righteousness'' (Romans 5:17) and calls it the ''doctrine of the justifying presence''. The justifying presence is an imparted righteousness, in distinct

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/02/2024
      ISBN13: 9780192873163, 978-0192873163
      ISBN10: 0192873164

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      Book Synopsis
      Newman and Justification examines John Henry Newman''s via media ''doctrine of the justifying presence'' in his Lectures on Justification. T. L. Holtzen contends that Newman put forth his via media doctrine of the justifying presence by employing a trinitarian grammar of divine inhabitation in which the Holy Spirit is the formal cause of justification as a solution to the Reformation debate over justification. Newman sets his via media of justification between the extremes of justification by ''mere imputation'' in ''popular Protestantism'' and that of justification by works-righteousness in ''English Arminianism'' and ''Romanism''. The word ''justification'' means both being declared and being made righteous because the eternal Word is spoken into the soul by the Holy Spirit in justification. Newman identifies this with ''the gift of righteousness'' (Romans 5:17) and calls it the ''doctrine of the justifying presence''. The justifying presence is an imparted righteousness, in distinct

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