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Catholic Teaching on the Ability to Merit Justification
The main article originally said, in it's summary of articles 9-18, that:
"They reject the Roman Catholic teachings on works of supererogation and that performing good works can make a person worthy to receive justification."
However, (to the best of my understanding) the Roman Catholic Church has never taught that performing good works can make a person worthy to receive justification. They *have* taught that a person may merit (in the sense of do what God requires for) eternal life, but that this can only occur as a result of (and after) justification. Additionally, Canon 1 of the Council of Trent Session 6 says, "If any one saith, that man may be justified before God by his own works, whether done through the teaching of human nature, or that of the law, without the grace of God through Jesus Christ; let him be anathema." [1] Consequently, I do not see how it could be argued that they teach that a person can be worthy to receive justification.
I amended the article to simply read "They reject the Roman Catholic teaching on works of supererogation." and deleted the incorrect statement. It would perhaps be possible to merely amend it to "They reject the Roman Catholic teachings on works of supererogation and that performing good works can make a person worthy to receive eternal life." but I am not sure of the Anglican teaching on this specific point.
If someone else has a source for this claim, or a better suggestion for how to amend it, I'm all ears.
Warr40 (talk) 04:04, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
- I disagree with the deletion. The cited source (Martin Davie, Our Inheritance of Faith: A Commentary on the Thirty Nine Articles, page 294) states: Template:Tq However, as a point of clarity, I will agree that we should make clear that medieval Catholicism is being referred to and that later Catholic theology may have been changed or clarified in response to the Protestant Reformation. Ltwin (talk) 19:47, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
No page 485 in O'Donovan
@Dr.Decapod, you added the phrase Template:Tq to the "Content" section under "Articles 9–18: Sin and Salvation". I checked the source you cited O'Donovan page 485; however, that book only has 160 pages. Can you please take a look and add the correct page numbers. Thanks. Ltwin (talk) 16:36, 7 August 2024 (UTC)