In What Sense Are We Justified by Faith Alone?

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[cronmaker]

Good note that the definitions of justified, faith, alone are crucial. Otherwise ppl fall prey to equivocation and posit absurd args like Aquinas held to a form of Protestant sola fide because he used the term. If someone wants the nitty gritty details of differences, ANS Lane's 2 books, one on Regensburg/Trent debates and other on the various modern ecumenical discussions with Rome and some Protestant churches are helpful. A big sticking point seems to be the nature of remaining sin in the justified.

[AnUnhappyBusiness]

At 3:55... living faith results in acts but technically it's the virtue that justifies- Catholic. Lutheran- no, it is not the virtue it is the act of living faith. Observers- so you both agree it is the living faith but disagree on whether it is that faith or the virtue of that faith. Wagner does an excellent job of precisely explaining the difference. It took me years of reading Trent, the Book of Concord, and the Joint declaration on justification, to figure out what was the exact point of disagreement because it is more subtle than most apologists on either side seem to care to acknowledge

[soulosxpiotov]

What I suppose are Roman Catholics writing comments, as a Protestant it appears that they (Roman Catholics) don't know what we (Protestants, and Evangelicals in particular) believe, and actually some of the answers posted are laughable.
Us Evangelicals do not believe in 'infused righteousness, ' we believe in being CREDITED, Imputed righteousness from Christ. And we DO believe that it's through the Holy Spirit that we do and act for our Salvation IN THE CONTEXT OF OUR sanctification, but also it is Christ who is the AUTHOR of our saving faith.

[superapex]

The problem is that the Protestant 'Faith' does not acknowledge the POWER of the Holy Spirit 'to will and to act' within us for our Sanctification (Philippians 2:13).
As such, it is NOT the (whole) Truth; therefore, it cannot possibly put us on the Path - and it certainly doesn't lead to Life.
It's an incomplete 'Faith' ...in a POWERLESS 'Holy' Spirit.
Even the 'Justification' part is problematic: how can one claim to have Fatih in God if one all but ignores the most important part of the Gospel?