Principles of Biblical Interpretation in the Lutheran Confessions (Biblia.com)

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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...

Fathers” (II, 32). In short, the Romanists “do violence not only to Scripture but also to the very usage of the language” (IV, 357).2 Like Roman Catholic exegetes, the Enthusiasts also failed to derive God’s meaning from the text of Scripture itself.3 For they “dream that the Holy Spirit does not come through the Word but because of their own preparations” (Ap XIII, 13). Luther answers this claim of the Enthusiasts in the Smalcald Articles. There he emphasizes that God gives no one His Spirit

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