| For the 40th Anniversary Edition of Justification | ix |
| Justification: Then and Now | xv |
| Justification Today: An Introductory Chapter to the New Edition | xxxvii |
| Preface to the First English Edition | lvii |
| Acknowledgments | lxiii |
| Abbreviations | lxv |
| A Letter to the Author | lxvii |
| Introduction | lxxi |
| Part 1 | Karl Barth's Theology of Justification | |
| A. | Justification and Salvation-History | |
| 1. | An Alien Language | 3 |
| Is Barth incomprehensible? | |
| Problem of the thought form | |
| Holy Scripture | |
| 2. | Justification: What Is the Central Problem? | 6 |
| Luther | |
| Justification as fundamental problem | |
| Justification as particular problem | |
| 3. | Justification in the Total Context of Barth's Theology Prolegomena | |
| God in Jesus Christ | |
| His work | |
| 4. | The Eternal Foundation of Justification | 13 |
| Election in Jesus Christ | |
| God's grace and the independence of the creature | |
| The living God | |
| 5. | The Covenant--Prerequisite for Justification | 18 |
| Covenant and creation | |
| Creation as grace | |
| Creation as justification | |
| 6. | Justification in Reconciliation--The Fulfillment of the Broken Covenant | 23 |
| Covenant-faithfulness versus covenant-breaking | |
| Justification in reconciliation | |
| 7. | Prospect and Retrospect | 28 |
| B. | The Achievement of Justification | |
| 8. | Jesus Christ--Our Justification | 35 |
| God who became man | |
| The judge who was judged | |
| God's judgment | |
| 9. | The Rejection of the Sinner | 41 |
| The double sense of the judgment | |
| Sin in the light of the Crucified One | |
| Sin is pride | |
| 10. | Fallen Man | 46 |
| The sinner remains man | |
| And the freedom of man? | |
| The radicality, totality, universality of sin | |
| 11. | God's Justice Against the Injustice of Man | 54 |
| God is just | |
| And He executes justice | |
| The transition from death to life | |
| 12. | An Alien Justice--Our Own Justice | 59 |
| The Self-enlistment of God | |
| Our very own history | |
| 13. | The Just Man | 63 |
| The dual orientation | |
| The beginning of justification | |
| The consummation of justification | |
| Forgiveness of sins, filial relationship to God, the heavenly inheritance | |
| 14. | Justification and Sanctification | 69 |
| The interior justifying | |
| Unity in diversity | |
| The order of things | |
| 15. | Through Faith Alone | 72 |
| God's otherness in the event of justification | |
| The disqualification of works | |
| Justified by faith | |
| 16. | Love and Works | 79 |
| Faith active through love | |
| Love as consequence of faith | |
| The praise of works | |
| 17. | The Foundation of Christian Existence | 82 |
| The presence of the Holy Spirit | |
| The Church | |
| The constituting of the new being | |
| 18. | The Justification of Man as the Self-justification of God | 89 |
| The justice of the Creator and Covenant-Lord | |
| The right of the Son | |
| The right of the Father | |
| 19. | Open Questions | 92 |
| Part 2 | An Attempt at a Catholic Response | |
| A. | Fundamentals | |
| 20. | The Theology of Justification Past and Present | 99 |
| Dialogue instead of dialectic | |
| Dogma in development | |
| The polemic aspect of definitions | |
| Anthropocentricity of Trent | |
| The theology of the textbooks | |
| Holy Scripture the principal source of Catholic theology | |
| The meaning of tradition | |
| Our method | |
| Barthian freedom of inquiry? | |
| 21. | The Redeemer Jesus Christ | 123 |
| Christocentricity | |
| The pre-existence of the Redeemer | |
| The prehistory of the Church | |
| 22. | Creation as a Salvation Event | 135 |
| Creation in Christ according to Scripture | |
| In the Catholic tradition | |
| Nothing apart from Christ | |
| Stages | |
| Why creation in Jesus Christ? | |
| 23. | Sin and Death in the Plan of Salvation | 148 |
| The sinner has forfeited life | |
| Why does he continue to exist? | |
| Forbearance and grace | |
| Creation in Christ | |
| Death as salvation or calamity | |
| Thomism and Scotism | |
| Athanasius | |
| 24. | The Wretchedness of Sin | 171 |
| Sin is always against Christ and His body | |
| The power and impotence of sin | |
| The incapacity of every form of self-justification | |
| 25. | The Ruin of Man | 180 |
| The forfeiture of freedom | |
| Sinner at heart | |
| The acts of the sinner | |
| 26. | A Variety of Foundations? | 190 |
| B. | The Reality of Justification | |
| 27. | Grace as Graciousness | 195 |
| Polemics | |
| Exegetical analysis | |
| The personal and the theocentric aspects | |
| Unity in Christ and His body | |
| The pardon of man | |
| Misunderstandings | |
| 28. | The Declaration of the Sinner's Justice | 208 |
| Justification is the declaration of justice | |
| The making just | |
| Justification in the history of dogma | |
| 29. | Justification in Christ's Death and Resurrection | 222 |
| The judgment of God | |
| "Justification" and "redemption" | |
| The accent on the "objective" | |
| The critique of Trent? | |
| 30. | Simul Iustus et Peccator | 236 |
| The Catholic "simul" | |
| In Trent and in Holy Scripture | |
| The past, covetousness, world and Church | |
| 31. | Sola Fide | 249 |
| In the Catholic tradition | |
| Works excluded | |
| Faith as trust in Jesus Christ | |
| Fides viva | |
| Baptism and the Church | |
| Essential change | |
| 32. | Soli Deo Gloria | 264 |
| The co-operation of man | |
| Justification and sanctification | |
| Merit | |
| 33. | Divided in Faith? | 275 |
| Excursus: The Redeemer in God's Eternity | 285 |
| Creation and Incarnation | |
| Assumptio humanitatis temporalis in Deum aeternum | |
| Jesus Christ in the bosom of the Father | |
| Scripture | |
| The Fathers | |
| The work of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament | |
| Mary | |
| Mysterium | |
| Bibliography | 303 |
| Index | 323 |
