Covenant Reformed News – October 2017 • Volume XVI, Issue 18
This article defends Protestant identity by explaining how sola Scriptura (Scripture alone) is compatible with the use of creeds and confessions, using historical evidence from the Reformation period including the Augsburg Confession and Reformed confessions. The author demonstrates that faithful Protestants hold both to the supreme authority of Scripture and to carefully formulated doctrinal summaries that reflect biblical teaching, addressing a common misconception about Protestant theology.
What Is a Protestant? (4) After summarizing the origin and the meaning of the name Protestant, and briefly explaining the biblical and Reformation truth that salvation is by faith alone in Christ alone through grace alone to the glory of God alone according to Scripture alone (the Five Solas), in the first three articles, we now need to fill out other important aspects of Protestantism. First, Protestantism is creedal. This is a much misunderstood issue in our day. The popular misconception...