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So then, what is this doctrine of justification?
Luther founds his doctrine on Saint Paul’s Letter to the
Romans.
Hans Küng writes: «One may say without exaggeration
that the Doctrine of Justification is at the root of that immense
theological confrontation involving the true form of Christianity;
a conflict that has lasted to the present; this is at the root
of the greatest catastrophe inflicted on the Catholic Church
throughout its two thousand year history». 1
This doctrine was thus defined: “justice imputed,” summarized
in the formula: “simul justus et peccator”; this is
the core of Lutheranism.
Therefore a Christian is not intrinsically just, but rather a
being who is both just and a sinner.
Luther uses expressions from Saint Paul, such as the term
from Psalm 32, where it speaks of “covered” sins (Romans
4.7), of the term “imputation,” taken from the Vulgate, “logizein”,
at times as “to deem,” at others with “to impute.”
But Luther lifts the main Biblical argument from c.7 of the
same Letter, where it reads:
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«I do not understand what I do. For what I want to
do I do not do, but what I hate I do ... I may wish
to do good, but do not act on it, since I do not
do the good that I want to, and I act on the evil
that I do not want ...». (7. 15-19)
This concept of the Church’s ecumenism and “latitudinarianism”
sprung from Vatican II: in the “Decree on Ecumenism”;
in “Lumen Gentium,” in the “new Canon Law”
(C. 201,1), in John Paul II’s Letter “Catechesi Tradendae,”
in the Allocution held in the Anglican Church of Canterbury,
in the Ecumenical Directory “Ad Totam Ecclesiam” of the
1 Cfr. H. Küng, “La justification. La doctrine de Karl Barth. Reflexion
catolique”, Paris 1965, p. 26.