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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...

must recognize that the Reformation was essentially a religious event; its deepest concerns, theological.”6 What this means, then, is that we must be “concerned with the theological self-understanding” of the Reformers.7 But more can be said. Yes, the Reformation was a “religious event,” and its deepest concern was “theological.” But history is filled with religious and ethical reform movements that considered themselves theological in orientation. What distinguishes the Reformation, however, is
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