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The Gift of Salvation
Seifrid, Mark
Seifrid, Mark
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"In the fall of 1997, a group of evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics agreed upon a statement concerning the nature of salvation, which was subsequently published in First Things under the title, “The Gift of Salvation.” A central aim of the discussions which led to this document was to ˜nd “˜rm agreement on the meaning of salvation, and especially the doctrine of justi˜cation” which had not been addressed in a 1994 statement known as “Evangelicals and Catholics Together.”1 The “Gift of Salvation” therefore takes its place alongside quite a number of recent attempts to ˜nd agreement between Catholics and Protestants on the doctrine of justi˜cation.2 It is di¯cult to assess what impact the statement might have, given the informal nature of the discussions which produced it, the variety of the participants in it, the confessional diversity of evangelical Protestants toward whom it is addressed, and the response of the Vatican to the “Joint Declaration” of Lutherans and Catholics released in July of 1998. Moreover, additional statements from participants to the discussions have appeared, describing something of the meaning of various aspects of the “Gift of Salvation”"
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1999
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