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Gavin Ortlund on Justification

LIVING · REFORMED BAPTIST
STANDARD SCHOLARLY ACCOUNTAFFIRMS°
STANCE

Forensic — righteousness imputed, not infused

THE POSITION

Forensic imputation.

WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONOne quotation, on spiritual-warfare, from a machine transcript of a solo Truth Unites episode, and copyright is not the reason the rest have none: this map quotes MacArthur, Heiser and Sproul at length, all modern authors in copyright. An earlier pass is recorded under research/ortlund — the transcript panel would not open on either Truth Unites video tried, and both books are paywalled. That is an access problem rather than a permission problem, and it produced one honest finding: the original-sin cell is a null recorded as searched and not located, with its own reason. The other eight have had no pass at all.

SCRIPTURE
ROMANS 4:5 · BSB

5 However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.

20 OTHERS HOLD THIS

Jacobus ArminiusCalvinJonathan EdwardsThe Church of Eleven22 Statement of FaithBilly GrahamJosh HowertonTim KellerSecond London Baptist ConfessionLutherJohn MacArthurPhilip MelanchthonJohn OwenJustin PetersJohn PiperR.C. SproulCharles Haddon SpurgeonWesleyWestminster ConfessionGeorge WhitefieldZwingli
Includes being made righteous, not only declaredAUGUSTINE · CHRYSOSTOM
By infused grace, mediated sacramentallyAQUINAS · WILLIAM OF OCKHAM · JOHN DUNS SCOTUS
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Pastor and author behind Truth Unites. Works on retrieving the church fathers for Protestants and on charitable engagement with Catholic and Orthodox claims.

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"Gavin Ortlund on Justification", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/ortlund/justification (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/ortlund/justification).

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