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Reading the Bible with Martin Luther: An Introductory Guide is unavailable, but you can change that!

Prominent Reformation historian Timothy Wengert introduces the basic components of Martin Luther’s theology of the Bible and examines Luther’s contributions to present-day biblical interpretation. Wengert addresses key points of debate regarding Luther’s approach to the Bible that have often been misunderstood, including biblical authority, the distinction between law and Gospel, the theology of...

Lutherus treibet” (what Luther pushes) but “Was Christum treibet” (what pushes Christ). To put it another way, there is a claim to truth that norms Scripture, but it is the same norm that norms Luther and any interpreter of Scripture. Later Protestant scholastic theologians (but not early Lutherans) distinguished between Scripture (as an authority and norm over every other authority) and creeds and confessions (as authorities subject to scriptural authority).20 In some ways, Scripture is that higher
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