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How Might We Obtain Everlasting Life?Although Protestants ought to have a ready answer about faith in Jesus Christ, the reasons explaining that answer run much deeper and relate to our status as God's image bearers. Important historical issues inform how we understand the precise relationship of work and grace.Throughout much of the medieval period and into modern Roman Catholicism, many believed that because original righteousness was superadded to our nature, personal righteousness could be restored by grace after the fall, allowing us to merit everlasting life by our own works. By contrast, the Reformation tradition has held that sin has damaged our nature so thoroughly that we could never merit salvation and must receive everlasting life by grace alone. Righteous by Designis, on one hand, a thorough historical investigation of medieval and counterReformation theology,exploring sources that have seldomly if at all been treated in Reformed literature. At the same time, it is al

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      Publisher Christian Focus Publications Ltd
      Published 12 January 2024
      ISBN-13 9781527111578
      978-1527111578
      ISBN-10 1527111571
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      How Might We Obtain Everlasting Life?Although Protestants ought to have a ready answer about faith in Jesus Christ, the reasons explaining that answer run much deeper and relate to our status as God's image bearers. Important historical issues inform how we understand the precise relationship of work and grace.Throughout much of the medieval period and into modern Roman Catholicism, many believed that because original righteousness was superadded to our nature, personal righteousness could be restored by grace after the fall, allowing us to merit everlasting life by our own works. By contrast, the Reformation tradition has held that sin has damaged our nature so thoroughly that we could never merit salvation and must receive everlasting life by grace alone. Righteous by Designis, on one hand, a thorough historical investigation of medieval and counterReformation theology,exploring sources that have seldomly if at all been treated in Reformed literature. At the same time, it is al

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