Justification by Faith in Modern Theology (Continued)

We shall begin the final installment of this article with the judgment that one of the truths about justification that St. Paul holds is that justification is complete before there is such a thing as faith. This fact of Paul\u27s teaching has been known, particularly in the theological literature of Missouri Lutherans, as objective justification. The term is not a good one, chiefly for the reason that the counterpart to it, subjective justification, if it means anything, should mean a justification that goes on in the believer, a thing which no Missourian ever held