On the Present Possibility of Sola Scriptura
The historic Protestant wager that Christian theology is funded and governed sola scriptura sui ipsius interpres commits Protestant exegesis and theology to a particular hermeneutical programme. But is this programme viable? I argue that it is, and that it should be undertaken today by practising th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2022
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International journal of systematic theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 569-587 |
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| Summary: | The historic Protestant wager that Christian theology is funded and governed sola scriptura sui ipsius interpres commits Protestant exegesis and theology to a particular hermeneutical programme. But is this programme viable? I argue that it is, and that it should be undertaken today by practising the theological interpretation of Scripture as a particular kind of Sachkritik: one that seeks the evangelical scopus scripturae in and across the variegated contours of the whole of the canon of Scripture, acknowledging both that it is all ‘letter’ and that precisely as ‘letter’ it is also the elected site of the adventitious self-disclosure of Word and Spirit. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-2400 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of systematic theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/ijst.12568 |