On the Present Possibility of Sola Scriptura

Philip Ziegler

doi:10.1111/ijst.12568

On the Present Possibility of Sola Scriptura

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Abstract

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 practicing 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	565-583
Number of pages	18
Journal	International Journal of Systematic Theology
Volume	24
Issue number	4
Early online date	18 Mar 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12568
Publication status	Published - Oct 2022

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Theological interpretation
Scripture
sola scriptura
Sachkritik
Protestant

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