웨스트민스터 신앙고백서와 구원의 확신

• 영문명: Westminster Confession and the Assurance of Salvation
• 발행기관: 개혁신학회
• 저자명: 이진락(Lee, Jin-Rack)
• 간행물 정보: 『개혁논총』제14권, 167~193쪽, 전체 27쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 종교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.06.30

영문 초록

The assurance of salvation has a complex character. The assurance of salvation not only belongs to the essence of faith, but also it is the fruit of faith. And the subjective foundation for the assurance of salvation is both the life of sanctification by the practical syllogism and the witness of the Holy Spirit. Calvin has emphasized that the assurance of salvation belongs to the essence of faith, while acknowledged that the assurance and the doubt coexist with each other. The composers of Westminster Confession(Puritans) have accepted Calvin's fundamental position that the assurance is the constituent parts of faith, but they have insisted that the full assurance is not the essence of faith but the fruit of faith. Jonathan Edwards and John Murray show the similar opinion on this point. The assurance concept implies a subjective and conscious action in the heart of saints. In this sense the assurance is a subjective thing. Therefore when we talk about the objective foundation and the subjective foundation of assurance, we think they point to the subjective assurance arisen from the objective foundation and the subjective assurance from the subjective foundation. The objective foundation of assurance is the divine truth of the promise of salvation revealed in the Scripture, and the subjective foundation of salvation is the internal witness of grace appeared in the soul of saints and the witness of the Holy Spirit. Seizing and appropriating the promise of salvation written in the Scripture is the saving faith. From this saving faith the assurance is sprung up. And then the believers who have a saving faith lives a life of sanctification and experiences the witness of the Holy Spirit in the sanctified life. Being assured of saints' own salvation on the basis of the status of this grace is that the assurance arisen from the subjective foundation. So the assurance arisen from the objective foundation can be said to be the fruit or effect of faith. Therefore explicitly the objective foundation of assurance is the more important. Yet The subjective foundation is not of little value. If one looks at only oneself, his/her faith is easily shaken. On th contrary if one doesn't look at oneself, his/her faith is likely to be lifeless or superficial. Nevertheless as the objective foundation is the more important, we look at ourselves one time while Christ ten times.

목차

1 서론

2 확신이란 무엇인가: 신앙의 본질인가, 신앙의 열매인가?

3 확신의 근거: 객관적인 것인가 주관적인 것인가

4 확신의 주관적 근거: 은혜의 내적 증거와 성령의 증거의 관계

5 확신의 추구

6 결론

키워드

Assurance of Salvation Assurance of Faith Full Assurance Westminster Confession Practical Syllogism Witness of the Holy Spirit