Justification in the Eastern Orthodox Churches (A Comparative Study)

The topic of this Thesis, Justification in the Eastern Orthodox Churches, is prompted by the document which recently came out of the U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue on the doctrine of Justification by faith alone, work which took more than five years ending in September 1983. To one who comes from the East, especially from Ethiopia, a country where half of the population is Orthodox, the reading of the publicity on this dialogue and its outcome raised the question: How do the Orthodox Churches in the East think about justification by faith alone? The incubation of this idea yielded the present thesis as an attempt to answer the question