sola scriptura

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sōlā scrīptūrā (“by scripture alone”) (ablative).

Noun

sola scriptura (uncountable)

  1. (Christianity) The Protestant Christian doctrine that the Bible is the supreme authority in all matters of doctrine and practice.
    • 1913, E. M. Lamond, transl., edited by C. L. Dessoulavy, Luther‎[1], volume 4, translation of original by Hartmann Grisar:
      In spite of the difficulties arising from this character of the Wittenberg Doctor, early orthodox Lutheranism taught that he had set up the “sola scriptura” as the “formal principle” of the new doctrine.
  • prima scriptura
  • sola ecclesia
  • tota scriptura

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