Justification

T. F. Torrance

doi:10.1017/S0036930600051905

Justification

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2009

T. F. Torrance

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In his debate with the Jesuit, James Tyrie, John Knox claimed that the controversy of the Reformers with the Roman Church was the same as that of St. Paul with the Judaisers of Galatia, in which the Gospel of Grace was at stake, ‘for it concerneth the chief head of justification’, as Knox expressed it. 2 On the other hand, when we examine the writings of Knox we do not find that ‘justification’, as a term at any rate, plays a prominent part, while the expression ‘justification by faith’ is hardly ever found—for when he did speak of justification he preferred to be more concrete and to use an expression like ‘justification through the blood of Christ’.

Type: Research Article
Information: Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , August 1960 , pp. 225 - 246

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930600051905 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1960

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^{page 225 note 1} Presidential address delivered to the Scottish Church Theology Society, 18th January, 1960.

^{page 225 note 2} The Works of John Knox (edit, by Laing), vol. VI, p. 499.

^{page 226 note 1} Works, VI, p. 364.

^{page 226 note 2} Romans 4.35—a favourite verse with Knox, as with Calvin.

^{page 226 note 3} Scots Confession, Articles X and XI

^{page 228 note 1} Scots Confession, 1560, Art. XXI.

^{page 228 note 2} Art. XII.

^{page 228 note 3} Scots Confession, Art. VIII.

^{page 229 note 1} ibid.

^{page 229 note 2} Art. VIII and X.

^{page 229 note 3} Art. IX.

^{page 229 note 4} Art. VII and VIII.

^{page 229 note 5} Art, X.

^{page 230 note 1} Institute 2.16.5.

^{page 231 note 1} See Robert Bruce, Sermons Preached in the Kirk of Edinburgh (edit, by Cunningham), p. 268f.

^{page 232 note 1} Institute 2.16.19.

^{page 233 note 1} This is the significance of the expression ‘the merits of Christ’ employed in our Reformed Confessions and Catechisms. See The School of Faith, p. lxxxiiif.

^{page 233 note 2} 1 Timothy 3.16.

^{page 234 note 1} Cf. R. S. Wallace, Calvin's Doctrine of the Christian Life, in which Dr Wallace shows that for Calvin Christ's self-consecration on our behalf governs the whole of the Christian life.

^{page 235 note 1} See The School of Faith, cvif.

^{page 237 note 1} James Fraser of Brea, A Treatise on Justifying Faith, and Meditations on Several Subjects in Divinity, Particularly Trusting upon God, etc.

^{page 239 note 1} Rom. 1.18, 25.

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