On the Freedom of Being Justified by Faith

The new human is no grotesque caricature who spends his life in a darkened room, reciting with closed eyes, “I am justified by faith alone, I am justified by faith alone.” By contrast, the passive righteousness of faith with its new relation to God and the self creates a new relation to all creatures, to the world, including a new perception of time and space.

From Living By Faith: Justification and Sanctification (Eerdmans, 2003), 27.

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