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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