Added a list of fiction titles down yonder in the lower righthand margin. I don’t have time to read fiction very often (usually when on vacation or travelling), so whe I do I try to read the good stuff. These are some of my favorite reads.
Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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Hi Jimmy. I just read your article from your website on Righteousness and Merit. I found it especially helpful, particularly the section on merit which really cleared some things up for me. If you had some spare time, I was wondering if you could provide some clarification on the section about righteousness.
It seems that Protestants believe we are made legally righteous when we are born again. Do Protestants believe that we receive any behavioral righteousness at initial justification? Then, it seems that throughout our lives, Protestants believe that our behavioural righteousness progressively increases, which they refer to as sanctification.
For Catholics, we believe that we are made legally righteous, receive partial behavioral righteousness, and our quality of actual righteousness is made perfect. Then, through progressive justification, we increase the quantity of our actual righteousness. Our behavioral righteousness increases during progressive justification also, right? Does our actual righteousness change at all in quality? What I mean is, when we sin throughout our lives, does this effect the quality of our actual righteousness? And when we mortally sin, we lose both our legal and actual righteousness completely, right?
Not sure if I worded my questions clearly. I read through the article twice, but I’m still not perfectly clear as to the use of the terms. Could you recommend a book that explains this a bit more in depth? Thanks!
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