Faith and works

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The sixteenth century movement known as the took a new view of the doctrine of . Whereas Augustine emphasised , Luther stressed . There were two ideas that needed further explaining: the believer’s response of really meant trusting in the work God has already done for us, and the theological idea of a saving work of was where God ‘reckoned us as ' – echoing a verse in Romans. Whereas Augustine had stressed an form of justification, Luther stressed a form in which we received what had been imputed to us by God. A contrast began to develop between justification by faith and . The reformers believed we could contribute nothing to our salvation and hence salvation became a legal idea: we were acquitted in the heavenly court and counted as righteous even though still . Our actions contributed nothing – it was all .

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