Оглавление книги:
Part I. Justification: The Emergence of a Concept:
1. The Hebraic context: semantic aspects of the concept of justification
2. Paul and the shaping of the Christian tradition
3. The fountainhead: Augustine of Hippo
Part II. The Middle Ages: The Consolidation of the Doctrine:
4. The nature of Justification
5. The righteousness of God
6. The concept of grace
7. The human appropriation of justification
8. Justification and the two powers of God
9. The concept of merit
10. Justification and the sacraments
Part III. Protestantism: The Reformation Debates on Justification:
11. Is there a 'Reformation' doctrine of justification?
12. Luther's early approach to justification
13. Justification in Lutheranism, 1516–1580
14. Reformed theology, 1519–1560
15. The English Reformation: from Tyndale to Hooker
16. Protestant Orthodoxy:
17. Anglicanism: the Caroline Divines
18. Puritanism: from the Old World to the New
19. Pietism: justification and the 'new birth'
Part IV. Catholicism: The Council of Trent on justification
20. The development of the doctrine within Catholicism, 1490–1545
21. Catholic responses to early Protestant doctrines of justification
22. An attempt at rapprochement: the Regensburg Colloquy (1541)
23. Catholic theological schools during the Tridentine debates on justification
24. The Tridentine debates on justification
25. The Tridentine decree on justification
26. Post-Tridentine discussions of justification
Part V. The Modern Period:
27. The Enlightenment: justification, moralism, and rationalism
28. The long nineteenth century: retrieval and reconfiguration
29. Contemporary renewal: justification and theological reconstruction
Conclusion: reflections on a study of doctrinal history.