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Instead of “synthetic” justification, Holl believed that Luther taught “analytic” justification, which Carl Braaten describes as “a real transformation of persons from the state of sinful- ness to that of righteousness . . . God does not only declare a person righteous, he literally makes a person righteous.” Thus Holl believed he was saving God from performing a “pious fiction”—namely, declaring a person righteous who in fact re - ally isn’t. Braaten continues, “This [analytic and transformative view of justification] places regeneration before justification.” Holl’s view of “God’s justification is an analytic judgment of the renewal that is taking place within the human subject,” which means that the “righteousness that we [Christians] possess is the reason for God declaring us to be righteous.” Armand J. Boehme
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