칼빈의 칭의론에서 믿음, 선행, 영생의 관계

• 영문명: The Relation between Faith, Good Works, and Eternal Life in Calvin's Doctrine of Justification
• 발행기관: 개혁신학회
• 저자명: 유창형(Yoo, Chang-Hyung)
• 간행물 정보: 『개혁논총』제13권, 193~227쪽, 전체 35쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 종교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.03.30

영문 초록

This paper has investigated the position of good works in Calvin's doctrine of justification in five items. Firstly, sola fide excludes good works as the instrument and cause of justification, but does not exclude good works as the fruit and evidence of justification. Secondly, good works hold a necessary position as the evidence of true faith. When faith does not accompany good works, it cannot justify anybody because it is dead faith. Thirdly, good works are considered as righteousness to the believer because his faults are covered by Christ's righteousness imputed to him at justification. This means that the righteousness of works is subordinated to the righteousness of faith. Fourthly, Calvin maintained works are the inferior cause of salvation or eternal life, but did not maintain the true cause of salvation. Accordingly, good works are necessary to justification as the evidence of true faith, but it is not Calvin's thoughts that the believer must depend upon good works for assurance or do good works to dwell in the Lord. On the contrary, good works prove that the believer dwells in Christ. To attain the assurance of election and salvation the believer must depend upon Christ only. Fifthly, Eternal life is called the compensation of good works in that the deficiency of good works is covered by Christ's righteousness. In the sense that the elect are regenerated by the Spirit and do good works by his help, good works are called God's gift. But good works does not exclude human efforts. The believer should effort to do good works according to the guidance of the Spirit in him. Because the elect are predestined to do good works by grace, justification is not cancelled to them at final judgement. Nevertheless, pastors must teach that if any believer continually commit a sin and does not repent it, he can be a reprobated man and his faith may be dead. This teaching will contribute to reduce the critique of the world to the bad behaviors of the believers. At the same time, pastors need not drive them to do good works to get assurance of salvation, for a justified man has already eternal life and it will not be cancelled.

목차

1 들어가는 글

2 칭의에 대한 칼빈의 개념

3 오직 믿음은 선행을 배제하는가?

4 선행은 칭의의 조건인가? 원인인가? 증거(열매)인가?

5 선행은 어떤 의미에서 영생의 보상으로 간주되는가?

6 최초칭의는 최종심판 때에 행위에 의해서 취소될 수 있는가?

7 나가는 글

키워드

Calvin Justification Faith Good Works Final Judgement Assurance Eternal Life