AFTER BABEL
Retrieving the Solas in the Spirit of Mere Protestant Christianity
KEVIN J. VANHOOZER
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Paperback edition published 2018
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Names: Vanhoozer, Kevin J., author.
Title: Biblical authority after Babel : retrieving the solas in the spirit of mere Protestant Christianity / Kevin J. Vanhoozer.
Description: Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016017619 | ISBN 9781587433931 (cloth)
Subjects: LCSH: Calvinism. | Reformed Church—Doctrines.
Classification: LCC BX9422.5.V365 2016 | DDC 230/.42—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016017619
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To the faculty and principals of Moore College,
past and present
“By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them”: Assessing a Revolution
Narrating the Story of Protestantism
Repenting the (Unintended) Iniquities of Our Reformation Fathers
Fine-Tuning the Problem; Deepening the Dilemma
Always Retrieving? “Ressourcing” the Debate about Interpretive Authority
Why Mere Protestant Christianity Matters
1. Grace Alone: The Mere Protestant Ontology, Economy, and Teleology of the Gospel
Sola Gratia: What the Reformers Meant
Nature and/or Grace: Other Views
Triune Ontology and the Economy of Salvation
Sola Gratia for Bible, Church, and Interpretive Authority
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About Biblical Authority after Babel: Retrieving the Solas in the Spirit of Mere Protestant ChristianityIn recent years, notable scholars have argued that the Protestant Reformation unleashed interpretive anarchy on the church. Is it time to consider the Reformation to be a 500-year experiment gone wrong? World-renowned evangelical theologian Kevin Vanhoozer thinks not. While he sees recent critiques as legitimate, he argues that retrieving the Reformation’s core principles offers an answer to critics of Protestant biblical interpretation. Vanhoozer explores how a proper reappropriation of the five solas—sola gratia (grace alone), sola fide (faith alone), sola scriptura (Scripture alone), solus Christus (in Christ alone), and sola Deo gloria (for the glory of God alone)—offers the tools to constrain biblical interpretation and establish interpretive authority. He offers a positive assessment of the Reformation, showing how a retrieval of “mere Protestant Christianity” has the potential to reform contemporary Christian belief and practice. This provocative response and statement from a top theologian is accessibly written for pastors, church leaders, and students. |
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