Assertion: dogma | /r/CapableOf | open up access
Facets:
value: to direct biblical instruction
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: In this sense, dogmatic statements (even the Trinitarian-Christological) are only secondarily binding for Protestant theology, and then only when it has been demonstrated whether and to what extent dogmas open up an access to direct biblical instruction, where it is presupposed that scripture, on the basis of its transparency, is its own interpreter.