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On the Present Possibility of Sola Scriptura
Author(s) -
Ziegler Philip G.
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of systematic theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1468-2400
pISSN - 1463-1652
DOI - 10.1111/ijst.12568
Subject(s) - protestantism , exegesis , interpretation (philosophy) , philosophy , theology , religious studies , linguistics
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.