Justification in the Heidelberg Catechism: The Latency of the Active Obedience of Christ
This essay demonstrates that the reference, in Q 60 of the Heidelberg Catechism , to Christ’s satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness does not embrace Beza’s twofold imputation but the Reformers’ repetitive concept of imputation that implies Christ’s subjection to the law of creation and the twofo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Journal of reformed theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 15, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 86-109 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDD Protestant Church NBF Christology NBM Doctrine of Justification |
| Further subjects: | B
latency
B Christian B Heidelberg Catechism B Justification B active obedience |
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| Summary: | This essay demonstrates that the reference, in Q 60 of the Heidelberg Catechism , to Christ’s satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness does not embrace Beza’s twofold imputation but the Reformers’ repetitive concept of imputation that implies Christ’s subjection to the law of creation and the twofold eternal life, so that the Catechism implicitly teaches the Imputation of the Active Obedience of Christ (hereinafter IAOC ). Compared to the previous studies, which have the disadvantages of applying Beza’s twofold imputation or Pareus’s repetitive interpretation to HC 60, this essay examines whether the Catechism might support or deny the IAOC with a significant consideration of the robust evidence both in the Catechism itself and in the sixteenth-century historical context. In conclusion, the Catechism, though not employing Beza’s twofold imputation, embraces both Christ’s subjection to the law of creation and the twofold eternal life supported by other Reformers, so that it entails and affirms the IAOC in its own moderate and systematic manner of the sixteenth-century historical context. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-7312 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of reformed theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10009 |