A few months ago, Francis J. Beckwith–former president of the Evangelical Theological Society–converted to Roman Catholicism. One of his stated reasons was the seeming inadequacy of the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith.

"As an evangelical, even when I talked about sanctification and wanted to practice it, it seemed as if I didn’t have a good enough incentive to do so," Beckwith told Christianity Today. "Now [in Catholicism] there’s a kind of theological framework, and it doesn’t say my salvation depends on me, but it says my virtue counts for something."

In "Virtue that Counts," the editors of Christianity Today rehearse the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith and show its intimate, biblical connection with sanctification. Check it out!