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The Reformation for Armchair Theologians is unavailable, but you can change that!

This accessible narrative story of the Reformation is written for lay audiences. It is part of the popular Westminster John Knox Press Armchair series and is illustrated with memorable cartoons by Ron Hill. The chapters of the book are suitable for use in church adult education settings to provide a solid grounding in the history of the Reformation and its leading ideas. Questions for discussion...

The key problem, however, was interpreting the Bible. Like the humanists, Luther argued that Scripture had just one meaning, generally the literal meaning in the New Testament and a figurative meaning in the Old. To find the meaning, you use the more clear passages of Scripture to interpret the less clear. And for Luther, the clearest teaching in Scripture was salvation through Christ, by grace through faith; this was therefore the lens Luther used to interpret the entire Bible. Luther also believed
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