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Theme 2 Part D - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Romans
        
        ‘The one who is righteous will live by faith.’
        
        ‘We are justified by faith.’
      - Galatians
        
        ‘We know that a person is justified not by the works of law but through faith in Jesus Christ.’
      - Ephesians
        
        ‘By grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing, it is a gift from god– not the
        result of works, so that no one may boast.’
    - - The Epistle of James: ‘a person is justified by works and not faith alone.’
        
        Luther: 'Epistle of straw', 'nothing of the nature of the gospel'
  - - - In Wittenberg half of all penance payments went towards the Cardinal Archbishop of Mainz to offset what he had paid the pope for his appointment as Archbishop
        
        In 1517, he nailed a letter to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg, protesting against clerical abuses in the Catholic Church
    - - Penance payments not only liberated teh living from doing actual penance, but that people in purgatory could be released and go to heaven if relative made payments on behalf of dead relatives
- - - - Righteousness is mediated first by baptism, which is
        God’s gift of Grace
      - Righteousness is maintained and increased by acts of
        penance, good works and participating in Holy Communion
- - - - Justification must be can act of God’s grace, not something that is earned through good works