Augustine and Justification
For Augustine, justification includes both the beginnings of humanity's righteousness before God and its subsequent perfection, the event and the process, so that what later became the Reformation concept of `sanctification' is effectively subsumed under the aegis of justification.
Alister McGrath. Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification - 3rd Edition (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 50
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