SOURCE: “Newman and the Problems of Justification,” in Newman Today: Papers Presented at a Conference on John Henry Cardinal Newman, edited by Stanley L. Jaki, Ignatius Press, 1989, pp. 143-64.

In the following essay, Morales evaluates the arguments of Newman's Lectures on the Doctrine of Justification, and concludes by summarizing the basic tenets of Newman's thought on this subject.

The doctrine on the Justification of sinners by God is one of the central aspects of the Christian Faith. It occupies a place of singular importance within the history of the religious opinions held by Newman, it has been one of the salient points at the center of disputes and discussions among Reformed and Catholic theologians, and it constitutes an obligatory topic within the current ecumenical dialogue.

While expounding on the fundamental lines of thought of John Henry Newman on the matter of Justification, we shall have to consider as...