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On today\u2019s program I explained the teaching known as the \u201cTwo Kinds of Righteousness,\u201d and\u00a0<\/span>defended its importance<\/span>. I explained some of the controversy surrounding the issue, and discussed its use in the Lutheran Confessions, as well as in later Lutheran theology.<\/span><\/p>\n

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