Newman and Justification: Newman's via media 'doctrine of the justifying Presence'

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T. L. Holtzen (Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, Nashotah House)

Newman and Justification

Newman's via media 'doctrine of the justifying Presence'

T. L. Holtzen (Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, Nashotah House)

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Oxford University Press
22 February 2024

History of religion; Anglican & Episcopalian Churches, Church of England; Christian theology

Newman and Justification examines John Henry Newman's via media 'doctrine of the justifying presence' in his Lectures on Justification. T. L. Holtzen contends that Newman put forth his via media doctrine of the justifying presence by employing a trinitarian grammar of divine inhabitation in which the Holy Spirit is the formal cause of justification as a solution to the Reformation debate over justification. Newman sets his via media of justification between the extremes of justification by 'mere imputation' in 'popular Protestantism' and that of justification by works-righteousness in 'English Arminianism' and 'Romanism'. The word 'justification' means both being declared and being made righteous because the eternal Word is spoken into the soul by the Holy Spirit in justification. Newman identifies this with 'the gift of righteousness' (Romans 5:17) and calls it the 'doctrine of the justifying presence'. The justifying presence is an imparted righteousness, in distinction from both the Protestant notion of imputed and Roman Catholic idea of inherent righteousness. The justifying presence comes through the sacraments, creates faith in the human soul, and begins a renewal in good works, all of which in different ways justify. The divine inhabitation of the Holy Spirit in the soul is the formal cause of justification by causing a duplex iustitia of both Christ's imputed righteousness and by beginning an actual righteousness in renewal. Newman's via media 'doctrine of the justifying presence' has great ecumenical promise because it shows how the trinitarian grammar of justification necessarily causes renewal through divine inhabitation.

By: T. L. Holtzen (Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology Nashotah House)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 494g
ISBN: 9780192873163
ISBN 10: 0192873164
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 22 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

T. L. Holtzen has taught theology at Nashotah House for the last twenty years as Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology. He is an ordained Episcopal Priest. In addition to being a fulltime professor of theology he is also Priest-in-Charge of St Paul's Church, Ashippun, WI. He completed his PhD at Marquette University, MA at Gordon-Conwell, and BA at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln