Feature articles in new issue: Kolb, Castaldo, Holcomb, Ortlund, and more

The new issue of Credo Magazine is here: “Sola Sriptura.” We have some outstanding contributors, each of which focuses on the relevance for biblical authority today.

Today we would like to highlight the feature articles:

What is sola scriptura? Matthew Barrett

Sola scriptura then and now: Biblical authority in late medieval and Reformation context, by Gavin Ortlund

God has come to talk with us: Martin Luther and the Word of God, interview with Robert Kolb

Biblical authority and the conviction to preach, by Chris Castaldo

No creed but the Bible? Justin Holcomb

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Protestantism today faces a crisis in authority. Living in the twenty-first century means we are born into a world that has experienced the full effects of the Enlightenment, Protestant Liberalism, and Postmodernism. Yet at the same time, God’s Word continues to stand undefeated. No doubt, the Bible is under fire today as critics, both secular and evangelical (oddly enough), attack the Bible’s full authority. But if we’ve learned anything from the sixteenth-century Reformation, we know that God’s Word will prevail in the end.

As he stood there trembling at the Diet of Worms, certainly it must have seemed to Martin Luther that the whole world was against him. Yet Luther could boldly stand upon the authority of God’s Word because he knew that not even his greatest nemesis was a match for the voice of the living God.

While our circumstances may differ today, the need to recover biblical authority in the church and in the culture remains. The next generation of Christians need to be taught, perhaps for the first time, that this is no ordinary book we hold in our hands. It is the very Word of God. In other words, if Christians today are to give an answer for the faith within them against those who would criticize the scriptures, then they need to be taught the formal principle of the Reformation: sola Scriptura—only Scripture, because it is God’s inspired Word, is our inerrant, sufficient, and final authority for the church.

Contributors include Justin Holcomb, Gavin Ortlund, Robert Kolb, Chris Castaldo, Paul House, and many others.