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Sola Scriptura: Authority versus Interpretation?

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dc.contributor.author Oliver, Erna
dc.contributor.author Oliver, Willem
dc.date.accessioned 2021-01-11T08:47:14Z
dc.date.available 2021-01-11T08:47:14Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.identifier.citation Acta Theologica vol 40 no 1, https://doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.v40i1.7
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27000
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.v40i1.7
dc.description.abstract This article discusses the term Sola Scriptura and the consequences of its application on the church, commencing with the Church Fathers, when the principle/idea of Sola Scriptura was already present, and followed by Martin Luther, whose 95 theses served as an ignition for the Reformation. Luther’s action led to the founding of the Protestant movement, with his followers separating themselves from the Roman Catholic Church on the grounds of Scripture. Over the past 500 years, a myriad of different churches has been established within the Protestant movement, separating themselves from other Protestants, each with the conviction of Sola Scriptura. The impression is that, although the authority of Scripture is maintained, their interpretation of Scripture has led them to found new churches. This then applied to the traditional Afrikaans-speaking Reformed Churches in South Africa, that came to this country as one church, and led to the establishment of at least five separate churches en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher AOSIS en
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject Sola Scriptura; Martin Luther; Church Fathers; Reformed Churches en
dc.title Sola Scriptura: Authority versus Interpretation? en
dc.type Article en
dc.description.department Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology en
dc.rights.license This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License


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