Justification (theology)

===Anabaptism===
[[Anabaptist]] cleric David Griffin writes:<ref name="Griffin2016">{{cite book |last1=Griffin |first1=David Graham |title=The Word Became Flesh: A Rapprochement of Christian Natural Law and Radical Christological Ethics |date=16 May 2016 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-4982-3925-7 |page=108 |language=En}}</ref>

{{quotation|For early Anabaptists, ''sola fide'' muted the call to imitate Christ by excusing anti-Christian behavior generally, and justifying violence towards fellow Christians in particular. True ''fide'', it was argued, takes Christ both as savior and example. That is, faith is directed not just to the soteriological work of Christ's death, but also towards his exemplary human life. Faith accepts that because Christ's earthly life pleased God, it is normative for proper human experience. Consequently, early Anabaptism expected an affirmative answer to two basic questions: 1) "Do you believe that Christ bore your sins?" and 2) "Do you believe that Jesus' human life, which pleased God, should be copied?"<ref name="Griffin2016"/>|author=Griffin}}

[[Menno Simons]] wrote in his "Confession of the Distressed Christians" that salvation was not in "works, words or sacraments" but are found only in Christ. In 1539 he wrote the qualities of this faith; " true evangelical faith... cannot lay dormant; but manifests itself in all righteousness and works of love; it... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it."<ref name="Simons1539">{{cite wikisource|chapter=The Reason Why Menno Simons Does Not Cease Teaching and Writing|wslink=The Complete Works of Menno Simons|plaintitle=The Complete Works of Menno Simons|last=|first=|year=|publisher=|page=|wspage=|scan=}}</ref> [[Balthasar Hubmaier]] wrote in "Eighteen Thesis Concerning the Christian Life" that "Faith alone makes us righteous before God" but further added that "such faith cannot remain idle, but must break forth in gratitude toward God and in all sorts of works of brotherly love toward others."{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} [[Pilgram Marpeck]] similarly wrote that the sinner was justified by faith and also that, "If God…liberates him (the sinner) from the bonds, cords, and power of the devil, and if Christ lives in him again through His Holy Spirit, he is justified through Christ and no longer a sinner. His sins and the stain of his wickedness have been washed away and cleansed through the blood of Christ, and God does not hold sin against him". Justification for Marpeck is, in  a word, liberation—namely, the liberation from the powers of darkness.<ref name="Macgregor2010">{{cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319128415 |last=MacGregor |first=Kirk |date=2010 |title=Pilgram Marpeck's Doctrine of Justification}}</ref>