Tag Archives: sanctification

Where’s Waldo Wednesday

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 16, 2010

It is often said that union is key to connecting justification and sanctification, the forensic and the renovative. In that light, Calvin’s discussion of the motivation for good works is surprising for the way that he counts union one among several other biblical grounds for sanctification. [Philosophers], while they wish particularly to exhort us to… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Warfield (the Lutheran?) On Lutheran Theology

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 4, 2010

There is no evidence presented here that the New Testament represents sanctification as received immediately by faith. In point of fact there is no direct statement to that effect in the New Testament. It is to Jellinghaus’* credit that he does not adduce for it either Acts xv.9 or xxvi.18, which are often made to… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday: Priorities

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 26, 2010

The objection to the priority of justification rests partly on the idea that justification and sanctification come simultaneously (though distinctly) through union with Christ – prioritization prohibited. And yet, the problem of prioritizing one benefit before another doesn’t seem to bother the advocates of union when it comes to the rest of the benefits purchased… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday: Did He Say “Impetration”?

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 19, 2010

We are told that God saves us in His mere mercy, by a renovating work of the Holy Spirit, founded on the redeeming work of Christ; and we are told that this renovating work of the Holy Spirit was in order that we might be justified and so become heirs. Here the purchase by the… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday: No Getting Around Antinomianism (if you are monergistic)

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 5, 2010

Some union advocates don’t like the theological approach of asking what problem a specific doctrine solves (sorry Matt). But since we are in the arena of salvation, which is supposed to be a remedy for sin, inquiries about effects of certain doctrines, whether doctrinal or personal, seems fair. So as near as I can tell,… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: What Am I Missing?

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 30, 2010

I have made this point in the comments on various posts but do not believe I have done so in a post itself. The point is obviously related to the priority of justification to sanctification specifically with regard to the righteousness we possess by faith in Christ. The doctrine of justification teaches that God accepts… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday: Has WTS Been Liberated from Its Westminster Captivity?

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 28, 2010

This post from a professor at Regent University’s School of Divinity deserves more interaction for what it says about evangelicalism. But for now the following excerpt is worth pondering for ongoing considerations about union with Christ. What is particularly noteworthy, from this oldlifer’s perspective, is how much WTS during the era of union hegemony, has… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: How Sinful Women become Righteous

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 23, 2010

Briefly put, then, one key problem with denying a priority of justification to sanctification is that it makes sanctification something other than what it is. The very character and identity of the Christian life are at stake. As Calvin has stated, when discussing the importance of justification, “For unless you first of all grasp what… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 21, 2010

Chapter 12 – Faith in the Holy Ghost Our faith and its assurance do not proceed from flesh and blood, that is to say, from natural powers within us, but are the inspiration of the Holy Ghost; whom we confess to be God, equal with the Father and with his Son, who sanctifies us, and… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Anathema

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 16, 2010

CANON XI.-If any one saith, that men are justified, either by the sole imputation of the justice of Christ, or by the sole remission of sins, to the exclusion of the grace and the charity which is poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, and is inherent in them; or even that the… Read More→

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