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Reformation Theology: A Systematic Summary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Five hundred years ago, the Reformers were defending doctrines such as justification by faith alone, the authority of Scripture, and God’s grace in salvation—some to the point of death. Many of these same essential doctrines are still being challenged today, and there has never been a more crucial time to hold fast to the enduring truth of Scripture. In Reformation Theology, Matthew Barrett has...

was being taught and practiced in the Roman church on the basis of his sustained engagement with the text of Scripture. Sola Scriptura meant for him that all other authorities, as venerable as they may be, stand under the authority of Scripture and are to be tested by what is taught in Scripture. At the point of the final word, Scripture stands alone. Other Reformers would build on Luther’s insights in the light of the challenges that inevitably came.
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