Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification

The "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" (JDDJ) is a document created and agreed to by the Catholic Church's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) and the Lutheran World Federation in 1999 as a result of Catholic–Lutheran dialogue.

As well as explaining the "emphases" from the view of the communion that holds it, the Joint Declaration also address the main problems identified or misinterpretated by the other party.

The Joint Declaration avoids mention or treatment of several issues of historical contention:[3][4] "free will", "predestination", "original sin", "total depravity", "indulgence", "satisfaction", and "sanctification".

On 18 July 2006, the World Methodist Council, meeting in Seoul, South Korea, voted unanimously to adopt the document.

Consequently, in 2016, Anglican Consultative Council Resolution 16.17 "welcomes and affirms the substance of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ), signed by Lutherans and Roman Catholics in 1999",[12] in the St. Anne's Church in Augsburg, Germany.

[13][14] The 2019 edition of the Joint Declaration includes statements by the Methodist and Reformed bodies detailing the nature and extent of their affirmation, so that their "distinctive emphases" and where their theology goes beyond the consensus are represented.