{"id":76,"date":"2024-11-22T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/22\/sola-fide\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T01:08:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T01:08:00","slug":"sola-fide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/22\/sola-fide\/","title":{"rendered":"Sola Fide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Orthodoxy abhors theological innovation and Luther did two things at the same time; he committed heresy by introducing a theological innovation and he committed schism by rejecting those who did not hold to sola fide, e.g., the early church fathers and the Orthodox Church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The issue here is not Pelagianism or Semi-Pelagianism.&nbsp; The real issue between classical Protestantism and Orthodoxy is monergism versus synergism.&nbsp; The Orthodox Church unabashedly affirms the synergistic understanding of salvation in Christ: God in his grace reaches out to us and we respond to God\u2019s initiative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orthodoxbridge.com\/2012\/01\/28\/response-to-theodore-semi-pelagianism-sola-fide-and-theosis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Response to Theodore \u2013 Semi-Pelagianism, Sola Fide, and Theosis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Orthodoxy abhors theological innovation and Luther did two things at the same time; he committed heresy by introducing a theological innovation and he committed schism by rejecting those who did not hold to sola fide, e.g., the early church fathers and the Orthodox Church.&#8221; &#8220;The issue here is not Pelagianism or Semi-Pelagianism.&nbsp; The real issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calvinism","category-eoc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}