What Must I Do to Be Saved? Catholicism and the Doctrine of Justification | Prof. Francis Beckwith

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🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This lecture was given at the University of Oklahoma on February 6, 2020.

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Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies at Baylor University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy. Among his over one dozen books are Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Politics For Christians: Statecraft As Soulcraft (IVP, 2010), and Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2015), winner of the American Academy of Religion's prestigious 2016 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Constructive-Reflective Studies. He is a graduate of the Washington University School of Law, St. Louis (MJS) as well as Fordham University (PhD, MA, philosophy).

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0:00.0	I'm glad that this meeting gets snowed out. I heard that was a distinct possibility.
0:05.0	When I woke up this morning in Waco, Texas, where I live right next door to Chip and Joanne,
0:11.0	which is not, no, it's not true.
0:14.0	There was actually snow on the ground in Waco.
0:19.0	So it's, so there was a, I had a sense that I, it may not happen, but I'm delighted that it did happen.
0:26.6	So it's great to be here.
0:28.6	As Nina said, the talk this evening is going to be on the Catholic doctrine of justification
0:35.6	or to put it in the form of a question, what must I do to be saved?
0:40.4	And what I'm going to share with you this evening is largely the result of my own journey
0:45.4	back to the Catholic Church. I grew up Catholic. I was baptized, confirmed, and went to First Holy Communion as a Catholic. I went to 12 years of
0:58.4	Catholic school. But when I was a teenager, I was kind of drawn away from the church, and I found
1:04.1	myself deeply involved with evangelical Protestantism. The trajectory of my life from that point forward, though, led me to be interested in philosophy and theology.
1:19.6	So after college, I went off to Fordham University where I did my doctorate in philosophy.
1:24.6	And it was only 12 years ago, I said, how many,
1:30.0	12, 13, almost 13 years ago now,
1:32.2	that I returned to the church.
1:33.6	And there were four issues that initially
1:39.5	prevented me from seriously considering Catholicism. One was the doctrine of the Eucharist. The other was
1:49.9	the doctrine of penance, the sacrament of penance. The third was apostolic succession, and the fourth
1:56.0	was the doctrine of justification. I can talk about all four, but I'm here to talk about just one of them,
2:02.4	the doctrine of justification. But I will tell you that of all of them, the one that was
2:08.6	initially the most difficult was the doctrine of justification. The others actually weren't
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