The Doctrin of Justification Is at the Heart of the Christian Faith

Tillick argues that the doctrine of justification, when rightly understood, lies at the heart of the christian faith. While nineteenth century man was characterized by his idealism, his twentieth century counterpart is characterized by existential pair and anxiety. Tillok attempts this task by the method of correlation by which the christian proclamation is correlated with the existential questions arising from human existence. It is truly amazing that mc grath can set forth such a viewpoint without pointing out its utter incompatibility with anything historic christian faith or holy writ has said concerning justification. Despite the verbal parallels with the concept of accept acceptatio da, it is difficult to see how tillick understands man to be accepted by god. That