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The word justification, as used in theological circles today, is pregnant with meaning and laden with baggage carried over from the Protestant reformation. There has been, in recent centuries, a tendency among biblical scholars to exclusively adopt and employ the standard western Christian or reformed protestant [juridical] definition of the word. It often seems that this understanding of justification is adopted de facto as the only proper way to understand the Pauline use of the word.

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