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Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy; Volume 2: Holy Scripture: The Cognitive Foundation of Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Volume Two, Holy Scripture, examines post-Reformation understandings of Scripture as the word of God—its divinity, its properties, the integrity of the canon, and its interpretation.

“The right of public interpretation of Scripture and of adjudging the truth of interpretation in public do not belong to all, but only to those who have been supplied with both the gifts and the calling to the task.” The apostle Paul, moreover, identifies these gifts—the first is the gift of prophecy or teaching, and the second (which, the Synopsis carefully notes, is included in the first) is the gift of discretion and of the testing of spirits.120 Scripture testifies, moreover, in many places to
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