The Reformed know and confess that faith without works is a dead faith, and it cannot save. But knowing and affirming this, they content themselves to dismiss the essential message of James chapter 2. For they say that dead faith is merely evidence that the faith was never faith at all. But this interpretation is […]

This post will answer the question, “Did St. John Chrysostom believe in justification by faith alone?”  As in the previous post answering the same question of St. Ambrose, the answer will be in the negative. Before reading either this or that previous post, the reader should be familiar with the points I made in this […]

Introduction This brief post will show that St. Ambrose of Milan did not believe in salvation “by faith alone” as professed by the Reformers, condemned by the Council of Trent, and generally held by most Protestants today. There are two reasons I am focusing on St. Ambrose: 1. He is one of the few Church […]

There is no question more important for the Christian than the question of how we are saved.  But the Scripture answers this question in apparently various ways as does the Catholic Church from the beginning until now.  Examples of answers from Scripture include: