Justification Is All of Grace, Not Merit

Lutherans and Catholics of modern times created a joint declaration on the doctrine of justification. The Catholic view entails divine grace that is undeserved assistance to get those who are capable of God going, he writes. Reformed Christian began calling him cheap grace, a name first coined by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Cheap grace plans to have heaven without holiness, salvation without sanctification, forgiveness of sin without forsaking of sin," Loy says.