Association of the World Communion of Reformed Churches with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification
The statement by which the World Communion of Reformed Churches associated itself with the Joint Declaration in 2017. It affirms the declaration’s common statements and adds a Reformed emphasis on the link between justification and justice.
Read the text at wcrc.eu ↗The communion’s own account of the process and the signing at Wittenberg ↗
The communion’s site says that the statement was drafted by a small group of theologians in consultation with the member churches and signed at Wittenberg during the General Council of 2017. Paragraphs 1 and 2 accept the invitation to associate and affirm doctrinal agreement with the common statements of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification; paragraphs 12 to 20 add what the text calls particular Reformed emphases, among them the continuing use of the law in the Christian life and the relation of justification to justice. It closes with an Official Common Affirmation by the Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist and Reformed parties. See Lutherans and Catholics Agree on Justification.
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- 31 October 1999, firm date