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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...

discussions about what links them together remain rare.109 Graeme Goldsworthy’s Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics is one of the few books that do.110 Also noteworthy is Herman Bavinck’s 1917 reference (on the occasion of the Reformation’s four hundredth anniversary) to three solas as expressing the essential Reformation confession: “Scriptura sola, gratia sola, fides sola … This was not a new principle, only the old Gospel.”111 Goldsworthy views the solas as basic hermeneutical presuppositions for reading
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