Home/ Start here/ Glossary/ Simul Justus et Peccator

Simul Justus et Peccator

Latin for “simultaneously righteous and sinner.” The Lutheran teaching that a believer is, at the same time, fully a sinner and fully justified before God, not a mixture or an average of the two, but both completely, at once.

In Doctrine — What Lutherans teach, and where it differs from neighbouring traditions.

← All glossary terms