TY - JOUR N2 - The article presents Martin Luther’s teaching on justification in the context of its soteriological and anthropological consequences, which at least on the verbal level are defined by the terms imputatio and deificatio. The basic presentation of the main aspects of this teaching is preceded by an outline of the historical background of its formation, where both the dispute over indulgences and the mystical inspirations of Luther’s theology played a significant role. The Wittenberg Reformer comprehended justification both as attributing to the believer the righteousness of Christ and as a close union with Him. This unity, whose image is marriage, consists in the commercium sacrum between man and Christ. The participation of a believer in the righteousness of Christ manifests itself as a kind of “transition” into Christ. In this sense, the existence of the justified person becomes an “ecstatic” existence, extra se, that is in God, resulting as a new – divinized (vergottet) – life. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/104104/PDF/8.%20Porada.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/104104 PY - 2018 EP - 127 DO - 10.24425/119665 KW - Martin Luther KW - doctrine of justification KW - faith KW - iustitia imputa KW - Lutheranism A1 - Porada, Rajmund PB - Polskia Akademia Nauk - Komitet Nauk Teologicznych VL - Tom 13 DA - 2019.02.25 T1 - Luther’s teaching about justification as „imputatio” and „deification” SP - 109 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/104104 T2 - Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN ER -