Sola Scriptura: Disease or Cure?

Of all the solas of the Reformation, critics from both within and without the Reformed tradition have most hesitated and argued over sola Scriptura. With good reason. Depending on how you define it, you can quite handily make the case that either not a single soul in the whole, holy catholic church actually believes sola […]

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Handling the Word: Bibliolatry in Islam and Reformed Christianity

What’s the difference between the Islamic and historic Christian doctrines of revelation? Is the Islamic doctrine properly called bibliolatry? If so, what does that say about the Reformed doctrine of the Bible that increasingly looks like the Islamic doctrine of the Qur’an?

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Martin Luther, Freedom of Conscience, and The Bondage of the Will

Martin Luther’s The Bondage of the Will was considered even by Luther himself to be one of his greatest works of theology, as it established the biblical and logical basis for his most treasured doctrine—justification by faith alone, and, contributing to its continued popularity, it does so with all of Luther’s characteristic, and entertaining, thunder […]

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