{"id":997,"date":"2009-01-10T16:51:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T20:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=997"},"modified":"2009-01-10T16:51:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T20:51:56","slug":"richard-john-neuhaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/richard-john-neuhaus","title":{"rendered":"Richard John Neuhaus"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have endured an avalanche of email on my honoring the late Father Richard John Neuhaus on my program when he passed away on Thursday of this week.<\/p>\n

Both callers to the program and emailers have expressed the thought that Richard John Neuhaus had an unbiblical view of salvation through faith by grace alone based on the merits of Christ alone, therefore no genuinely evangelical Christian would see any redeeming value in honoring his memory. That assumption is made because, after all, he converted from Lutheranism to Catholicism in 1990, therefore he could NOT have had a biblical view of salvation.<\/p>\n

Here is Richard John Neuhaus in his own words from one of his spiritual writings, Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross<\/a>\"\". \u00a0(Thanks to Russell Moore, dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, for posting this at his blog<\/a>):<\/p>\n

When I come before the judgment throne, I will plead the promise of God in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. I will not plead any work I have done, although I will thank God that he has enabled me to do some good. I will plead no merits other than the merits of Christ, knowing that the merits of Mary and the saints are all from him; and for their company, their example, and their prayers through my earthly life I will give everlasting thanks. I will not plead that I had faith, for sometimes I was unsure of my faith, and in any event that would be to turn faith into a meritorious work of my own. I will not plead that I held the correct understanding of \u2018justification by faith alone,\u2019 although I will thank God that that he led me to know ever more fully the great truth that much misundertood doctrine was intended to protect. Whatever little growth in holiness I have experienced, whatever strength I have received from the company of the saints,\u00a0whatever understanding I have attained of God and his ways\u2026these and\u00a0all other gifts I will bring gratefully to the throne. But in seeking entry\u00a0to that heavenly kingdom, I will, with Dysmas, look to Christ and Christ alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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