The Missing Category of the ‘Righteous Man’–Revisited

A while ago I posted an article entitled, “Is Anyone More Holy Than Anyone Else?  The Missing Category of the ‘Righteous Man”.  In that article I discussed the downplaying of sanctification and holiness in some Reformed circles today.  For whatever set of reasons, certain pastors and theologians are convinced that in order to preserve the doctrine of justification we cannot emphasize that real progress is possible in our sanctification.  If we are really about ‘grace’, we are told, then we must focus predominantly on our depravity.

In my prior post, I argued that one of the motivations for this entire approach is  a misunderstanding of the doctrine of total …

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