Why Do I Justify Myself?

A leper is cleansed, and instead of joy, the Pharisees bristle. This paper opens the pattern of self-justification that runs through the Gospels: the reflex to defend one's own righteousness rather than receive mercy freely offered.

Self-justification is read here not as an occasional lapse but as the deep, ordinary posture of the fallen heart, the thing that must be laid down before grace can do its work. The paper follows Christ's confrontations with those who justify themselves, and asks what it costs, and what it frees, to stop.

This is the fourth paper of Phase II, The Crisis, in which the soul who has met Christ in Phase I now faces what must change.

Published by The Cathedral of The Fourth. The way is narrow, but just.

Format: Digital PDF

Language: English

Author: M.F. Robb

Published by thephilippapers.com

A Cathedral of The Fourth production.