"God's grace effects what he declares": scriptural support for the agreement on justification in the joint declaration on the doctrine of justification and Salvation and the Church *.

Justification has been a point of contention between Roman Catholics and Lutherans at any time since the Reformation. Both would admit that justification is first and foremost a gift of lord by grace. However, in an effort the two to safeguard human autonomy and to be genuine to the whole of the scriptural witness, Roman Catholicism would support a transformational archetype of justification, in which the grace of omniscience actually heals and transforms the inner man of the believer, so that the believer is intrinsically just and able to perform meritorious works. Lutheranism, in an effort to comfort terrified consciences, would traditionally support an