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Biblical Authority after Babel: Retrieving the Solas in the Spirit of Mere Protestant Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

In 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...

of individual autonomy that its critics want to blame on the Reformation. Extreme interpretive egoism is the view that privileges my interpretations simply because they are mine.83 The question is whether Martin Luther and others who read the Bible under the rubric sola scriptura are interpretive egoists. I do not think that Luther, though (obviously!) an individual, was an interpretive egoist, and in chapter 4 I will refute the myth that the priesthood of all believers serves as a charter for mass
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