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Principles of Biblical Interpretation in the Lutheran Confessions is unavailable, but you can change that!

Lutherans regard their confessions as expositions of Holy Scripture and therefore as authoritative statements of Christian faith and life. This book will aid Lutheran pastors and students in understanding the confessional principles of Biblical interpretation. Its central thesis is that these principles are derived from the confessional doctrine of Holy Scripture. The first part of the book...

A serious student of the symbols is overwhelmed by the subject. On nearly every page he meets the cantus firmus of justification as the ever-recurring theme which, though developed in a hundred fascinating variations, always remains plainly recognizable as the same theme.4 The doctrine of justification is not only the main subject of the Lutheran Confessions but the chief teaching of Scripture as well. The Augsburg Confession argues that “the chief article of the Gospel must be maintained, namely,
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