| Abbreviations | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Justification | |
| Ch. 1 | The Ancient Fathers on Evangelical Justification | 15 |
| A | Typical Misconceptions of Classic Christian Teaching on Saving Faith | 15 |
| B | The Unexplored Connection: The Fathers Were Not Ignorant of the Pauline Teaching of Justification | 23 |
| Ch. 2 | Justification Defined | 36 |
| A | Rehearsing the Classic Consensus on Justification | 36 |
| B | Introducing Locus Classicus Patristic Texts on Justification | 44 |
| C | God's Costly Way of Reestablishing a Right Relation with the Sinner | 50 |
| D | How Divine Love Brings Sinners into an Uprighted Relation with Divine Justice | 53 |
| Ch. 3 | Receiving Righteousness from God | 60 |
| A | Justified by His Blood | 60 |
| B | How Righteousness Is Revealed | 66 |
| C | Our Appropriation of God's Righteousness | 69 |
| Pt. 2 | Grace Alone | |
| Ch. 1 | Why Imputed Grace Dislodges All Boasting | 81 |
| A | Defining Grace | 81 |
| B | The Nurture of Gracious Ability | 83 |
| C | How Grace Grounds Justification: By Free Grace We Have Full Satisfaction | 87 |
| D | Imputed Righteousness | 91 |
| E | The Fathers Teach the Unmerited Grace of the Triune God | 95 |
| F | Receiving Grace, Growing in Grace, Living under Grace | 98 |
| G | How Protestant Definitions of Grace Confirm the Patristic Consensus | 101 |
| Ch. 2 | Let the Fathers Speak for Themselves on Sola Gratia | 107 |
| A | By Grace You Are Saved | 107 |
| B | The Fathers Teach That All Boasting Is Out of Place | 111 |
| C | Grace in Action | 114 |
| D | The Gift of Faith and Human Agency | 116 |
| E | The Grace of Effectual Calling | 120 |
| F | New Life under Grace | 121 |
| Pt. 3 | By Faith Alone | |
| Ch. 1 | Justifying Faith | 129 |
| A | What Is Faith? | 129 |
| B | Faith Classically Defined in Hebrews 11:1 | 131 |
| C | Justifying Grace Received Only by Faith | 134 |
| D | How Faith is Congruent with Justification | 136 |
| Ch. 2 | Faith in God's Righteousness | 139 |
| A | Approaching God with Grounded Confidence | 139 |
| B | Biblical Examples of Faith | 144 |
| C | Classic Distinctions Regarding Faith | 148 |
| D | An Act of Mind, Will, and Heart | 154 |
| Conclusion | 161 |
