Recognition and Religion A Historical and Systematic Study

In Latin theology, Romans 4:3–5 is regarded as the classical text of forensic justification: For what does the scripture say?‘Ab ...

resembles the act of seeking recognition from the lord, justification grants a new social status that can be interpreted as gift ...

This is true, but it is not what Paul really means here.^157 For Luther, Paul and the Psalmist do not mean that human injustice ...

the phrase‘God’s truthfulness’in Romans 3:7. The righteousness of God is not commended through my wicked acts, but rather becaus ...

feudal commendation can be heard here. Luther rounds out his discussion by saying that God is justified in three ways, all of wh ...

of heteronomy: through renouncing oneself, the individual learns that God justifies this person and makes him truthful. The Cice ...

of the Council of Trent show that the Catholics of the sixteenth century were not demanding less but more personal involvement f ...

attachment that is not restricted to the initial acknowledgement and confession but continues to serve as the basis of Christian ...

This brings us back to the issue discussed in the opening para- graphs of this book. Is there a conceptual link between justific ...

Finally, justification by faith is not the only immediate context in which Luther employs the verb agnosco. Like Augustine, he f ...

Concordin the context of describing the believer’s confidence (fidu- cia) as sure and certain:‘This knowledge of (agnitio) and c ...

Each of us must, then, be so stung by the consciousness of his own unhappinessastoattainatleastsomeknowledgeofGod(notitiam dei). ...

needs to start with an act of acknowledgement:‘Our mind cannot apprehend God without rendering some honour to him.’^200 Calvin’s ...

attitude of a servant honouring his lord, it is an epistemic concept that underlines how personal involvement precedes all theor ...

In a somewhat paradoxical manner, then, the idea of personal appro- priation is both a prerequisite of all theological knowledge ...

neatly when he says that in the right kind of fear the Christians,‘when recognizing their own misery (miseriam suam secum recogn ...

promote our salvation...When we acknowledge (agnoscimus) the Father’s rod, is it not our duty to show ourselves obedient and tea ...

The renewal of mind taking place in recognition is elaborated in Calvin’s discussion of faith and works. The saints may understa ...

recognition captures the second-order knowledge from which theo- logical conclusions can be drawn. While the good works do not a ...

shadow ofagnitio/agnoscoduring the medieval period and in Luther, they are repeatedly employed by Calvin. After the French trans ...