Salvation by Faith or Works | Prof. Michael Root
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🗓️ 9 June 2022
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This lecture was given on March 29, 2022 at North Carolina State University. The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/ybaa6j3u. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Michael Root is Ordinary Professor of Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Root is a native of Norfolk, Virginia and studied at Dartmouth College (B.A.) and Yale University (Ph.D. in theology). He was received into the Catholic Church in August, 2010. His particular theological interests are ecumenical relations, eschatology/last things, grace, and justification. Root has been a member of the US and international LutheranCatholic dialogues, the US LutheranUnited Methodist dialogue, the AnglicanLutheran International Working Group, and the AnglicanLutheran International Commission. He served on the drafting teams that produced the LutheranRoman Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.
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| 0:08.0 | I should probably add one thing to the introduction. |
| 0:15.0 | You notice that I was received in the Catholic Church in 2010. I was a Lutheran until that point. I did |
| 0:23.6 | ecumenical dialogue. So some of what I'm talking about tonight will come out of, sort of working |
| 0:28.3 | on these questions ecumenically, as a Lutheran dealing with Catholics, as a Catholic dealing |
| 0:32.5 | with Lutherans. I do think I am the only person in the modern ecumenical movement who was ever served on both |
| 0:38.2 | sides of the same dialogue at different times, having been a Lutheran, on the American Lutheran |
| 0:43.3 | Catholic dialogue, and then later representing the Catholic Church in the same dialogue, which is a |
| 0:48.2 | little odd. I know of only one other person like that. The first Lutheran Anglican dialogue, |
| 0:53.2 | Lutheran Anglican dialogue, was a meeting between |
| 0:55.6 | representatives of Henry VIII and the city of Hamburg in the early 1530s over questions of |
| 1:03.0 | Hamburg supporting Henry in the Civil War that might name him King or Denmark in addition to England. |
| 1:09.5 | There was a guy Robert Barnes, who was sent by Henry and told to be on whichever side is |
| 1:14.9 | short-handed. |
| 1:16.6 | He was English, but he was a strong Lutheran. |
| 1:19.3 | Five years later, Henry had him burned at the stake, which shows the dangers of sort of sometimes |
| 1:24.5 | moving on the border between traditions. |
| 1:27.0 | Okay. |
| 1:29.3 | I've been asked to talk about, are we saved by faith or by works? Now, this is a traditional question, often seen as a central |
| 1:35.8 | Protestant question, a question between Protestants and Catholics, but it is also a question that |
| 1:42.8 | is central to the New Testament. |
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