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Merit (Christianity) In Christian theology, merit (Latin: meritum) is a good work done that is "seen to have a claim to a future reward from a graceful God ". [1] The role of human merit in Christian life is a point of dispute between Catholics and Protestants. Merit bears resemblance to Thawab in Islam. Within Christianity, both Catholics and ...
Condign merit. Condign merit ( meritum de condigno) is an aspect of Catholic theology signifying merit with the dignity of Christ. A person born again in Christ does not merit of his own virtue but the virtues of Christ are applied to his work. Therefore, it is God crowning his works.
The Summa Theologiae or Summa Theologica (transl. 'Summary of Theology'), often referred to simply as the Summa, is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), a scholastic theologian and Doctor of the Church. It is a compendium of all of the main theological teachings of the Catholic Church, intended to be an instructional guide for ...
t. e. In Western Christian theology, grace is created by God who gives it as help to one because God desires one to have it, not necessarily because of anything one has done to earn it. [1] It is understood by Western Christians to be a spontaneous gift from God to people – "generous, free and totally unexpected and undeserved" [2] – that ...
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (1950) 386 pages; Bayer, Oswald, Martin Luther's Theology: A Contemporary Interpretation (2008) 354 pages; Brendler, Gerhard. Martin Luther: theology and revolution (1991) 383 pages; Gerrish, B. A. Grace and Reason: A Study in the Theology of Luther (2005) 188 pages; Kolb, Robert.
t. e. In Christian theology, justification is the event or process by which sinners are made or declared to be righteous in the sight of God. [1] In the 21st century, there is now substantial agreement on justification by most Christian communions. The collective bodies of most of the largest Christian denominations, including Catholic ...
The history of the Calvinist–Arminian debate begins in the early 17th century in the Netherlands with a Christian theological dispute between the followers of John Calvin and Jacobus Arminius, and continues today among some Protestants, particularly evangelicals. The debate centers around soteriology, or the study of salvation, and includes ...
e. Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. [1]