num_pages: 416
description: Scholar and pastor Matthew Barrett retraces the historical and biblical roots of the doctrine that Scripture alone is the final and decisive authority for God's people. God's Word Alone is a decisive defense of the Bible as the inspired and inerrant Word of God. Revitalizing one of the five great declarations of the Reformation sola Scriptura  This book is an exploration of the past in order to better understand our present and the importance of reviving this indispensable doctrine for the Christian faith and church today. THE FIVE SOLAS Historians and theologians have long recognized that at the heart of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation were five declarations often referred to as the solas. These five statements summarize much of what the Reformation was about and they distinguish Protestantism from other expressions of the Christian that they place ultimate and final authority in the Scriptures acknowledge the work of Christ alone as sufficient for redemption recognize that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone and seek to do all things for Gods glory. The Five Solas Series is more than a simple rehashing of these statements but instead expounds upon the biblical reasoning behind them leading to a more profound theological vision of our lives and callings as Christians and churches.
language: English
title: God's Word Alone---The Authority of Scripture: What the Reformers Taught...and Why It Still Matters
publisher: Zondervan Academic