"The gift of salvation": Its failure to address the crux of justification

12 For a critique of Kiisemann's theology oflustification in this regard, see Paula Francis Matthew Zahl, Die Rechtfertigungslehre Ernst Kdsemanns (Calwer Theologische Monographien 13; Stuttgart: Calwer, 1996) esp. 66-74.

" I have surveyed this usage in an article which is to appear in a forthcoming volume on Paul and early Judaism edited by D. A. Carson.

14 1 develop these ideas at greater length in a forthcoming book on justification in Paul's thought.

11 Paul O'Callaghan, Fides Christi: The Justification Debate (Dublin: Four Courts, 1997) 249. " 1989, 1993 Catechism of the Catholic Church (New York: Doubleday, 1995) 536-537.

17 Contra Richard John Neuhaus, "Setback in Rome," First Things (October 1998) 82.

'8 The citation is drawn from the flirst point of clarification of the official Catholic Response to the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, published on July 9, 1998, downloaded from http://Iutheranworld.org. Since the initial Vatican response there has been an "annex" to the Joint Declaration, in which the problem of the simul justus et peccator has been set aside, the text of which is available at http://Iutheranworld.org. Lutheran and Roman Catholic representatives

plan to sign the declaration on October 31, 1999, in Augsburg, Germany. It remains an open question as to whether even with this "annex" the Joint Declaration adequately deals with this theological difference.

" See the comments of Athina Lexutt, Rechtfertigung im Gesprdch: Das Rechtfertigungsuerstdndnis in den Religionsgesprdehen von Hagenau, Worms und Regensburg 1540/1541, Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte 64 (G6ttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996) 275-276.

11 Alister E. McGrath, Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification (1st ed.; 2 vols.; Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1986) 2:191.

MARK SEIFRID*

* Mark Seifrid is associate professor of New Testament at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2825 Lexington Road, Louisville, KY 40280.

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