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

Three websites

Since Christian theology is done in the context of a global community and broad academic input, I urge you to look at Arts and Letters Daily as a great guide to important articles, books, reviews, op-ed pieces, etc. It has an impressive list of links on the main page, including newspapers from around the world.

One of the great free resources on the web allows for searching in many versions of the Bible.
Go here for this superb search engine to Scripture.

If you want to access a site that searches in the Greek text of the NT, go to the various options listed at The Greek New Testament Gateway

Happy searching.

Introducing STI

This blog is for students in Systematic Theology I Winter Term 08 with Professor James A. Beverley at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto.