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The Lutheran Doctrine of Justification in a Patristic Perspective: A Critique of Alister McGrath's Iustitia Dei

McGrath’s conclusions should be rejected as they are drawn from a biased and partial selection of church fathers that fails to accurately represent patristic thought and cannot support such wide and generalizing assertions as those made by McGrath. His treatment of specific church fathers should also be questioned, such as his treatment of Victorinus, which presents a view of Victorinus’s theology difficult to square with his own writing on the relevant issues.

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