The Protestant Reformers of the sixteenth century proclaimed that God’s word in Scripture must serve as the final judge of all human tradition and experience. Left to our own devices we are capable of infinite self-deception, confusion, and evil. We therefore must turn to Scripture and submit ourselves to it, the Reformers insisted, in order to find our disorders rightly diagnosed and healed. Only through the biblical writers’ testimony do we encounter the message of God’s grace; only the revelation