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Formed-By-Love

Faith justifies as it is *formed* by love (*fides caritate formata*) — the Tridentine position rejected by WCF XI.2.

This is a contested or rejected alternative.

The Westminster baseline on Saving Faith is Receptive-Resting-On-Christ-Alone. Personas and schools listed below hold this alternative position instead — either because they argued for it at the Assembly (like the Erastians on polity) or because they represent a receiving tradition that departed from the Standards on this point.

Other positions on Saving Faith

Receptive-Resting-On-Christ-Alone WCF Saving faith is the act of the soul receiving and resting upon Christ alone for salvation, as he is offered in the gospel (WCF XIV.2; SC Q. 86). Mere-Assent Faith is bare intellectual assent without trust — the Socinian and (in some readings) the strict-orthodox-only inflection; rejected by XIV.2.

Cite this position

Study Reformed, “Formed-By-Love” (Position), Westminster Standards Atlas, version 79a5f9880ac1, https://studyreformed.com/atlas/cite/position/soteriology/saving_faith/formed_by_love/.

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