Tradition |
Process or Event |
Type of Action |
Permanence |
Justification & Sanctification |
Justification & Atonement |
Catholic |
Process |
Synergism |
Can be lost via mortal sin |
Part of the same process |
Substitutionary atonement |
Orthodox |
Process |
Synergism |
Can be lost via apostasy |
Part of the same process of
theosis |
Atonement via Christ's
victory over Satan |
Lutheran |
Event |
Divine monergism |
Can be lost via loss of
faith |
Separate from and prior to
sanctification |
Substitutionary atonement |
Reformed |
Event |
Divine monergism |
Cannot be lost |
Basis for sanctification |
Substitutionary atonement |
Methodist |
Event |
Synergism |
Can be lost |
Dependent upon continued
sanctification |
Governmental theory of
atonement |
Mormon |
Process |
Eternal progession |
n/a |
Earned through obedience to
all sacred obligations |
Personal righeousness |