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God's slow renovation project, turning sinners into saints one stubborn habit at a time.
means The ongoing process of being made holy — set apart from sin and gradually shaped into moral and spiritual wholeness.
from From Latin sanctificare, a fusion of sanctus ('holy, sacred') and facere ('to make'). The sanctus root also gives us 'saint' and 'sanctuary' — places and people set apart. Church Latin put the word to heavy theological use, naming the process by which the already-forgiven are slowly, unevenly, made actually different.
- theological term
- process, not a one-time event
- differs from justification
- justification is status, sanctification is progress
- never finished
- complete only at death or glorification
- etymology
- from latin sanctus, meaning made holy