Passage

Romans 13

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  CRITICAL: as in other historically Catholic contexts, the Council of Trent's teaching of infused, merit-cooperated righteousness stands in tension with the Reformation's forensic 'declared righteous' reading reflected in Polish Protestant Bibles.

  ROM.13.11

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  CRITICAL: right standing before God granted through faith, not merit accumulated through religious practice or ritual observance.

  ROM.13.11

• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: reconciliation with a personal God received by faith, not a status assumed automatically through sacramental participation or through belonging to a historically Catholic nation.

  ROM.13.11

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: reconciliation with God received by faith, not a status assumed automatically through sacramental participation (baptism, First Communion, confession) or through belonging to a historically Catholic nation.

  ROM.13.11