Monday, March 10, 2008

Catholic Protestant agreement on Justification

We have spent some time thinking this term about the Catholic paradigm in theology. While we express differences with Catholic doctrine at points, we should also note areas of potential and real agreement. On October 31, 1999 Catholic and Lutheran leaders signed a Declaration on Justification in Augsburg, Germany. Here are some web sites related to the Declaration:

Declaration at the Vatican site
Pictures from ceremony here
Important analysis by Avery Dulles, the Catholic scholar at First Things
Early report to the Vatican in 1998 here
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod critique
Lutheran parody of Declaration

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