By What Authority?

- - - - The Trinity = justification by faith alone
      - The gospel is self-authenticating (Teaching Authority and Infallibility in the Church. L/RC VI, 1978)
      - Means, not mediators (The One Mediator, the Saints, and Mary. L/RC VIII, 1992)
      - Certainty, not security (The One Mediator, the Saints, and Mary. L/RC VIII, 1992)
      - “He is our only hope,” an excerpt from Leif Grane
      - Joseph Burgess: Teaching authority in the Lutheran tradition
      - The Book of Concord’s key to itself
      - We are not free to gospel-plus
      - Pan-Lutheranism = pandemonium
      - Pure text, no — pure gospel, yes
      - Pure doctrine, no — pure gospel, yes
      - Pure church, no — pure gospel, yes

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