Martin Bucer and a Double Justification?

When it came to the nature of justification, the Reformers were far from agreed on everything nor monolithic. Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin, Zwingli, Bullinger, and Bucer each had their own particular take of understanding justification in relation to God’s righteousness, its forensic nature, moral transformation, regeneration, good works, the Spirit, and election.

Peter Leithart gives a good blog post about Martin Bucer. Among things I like are that Bucer did not regard the “righteousness of God” as the justification that we receive from God! Bucer was also among the first to see justification as God both declaring and making sinners righteous.

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