sola scriptura
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Christian theological doctrine that scriptures are the sole source of authority for faith and practice
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Encyclopedic overview
According to the doctrine of sola scriptura, Scripture is the only infallible authority for the Christian Church, due to its unique nature as a divinely inspired text.
Sola scriptura (Church Latin for 'by scripture alone') is a Christian theological doctrine held by most Protestant Christian denominations, in particular the Lutheran and Reformed traditions, that posits the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice. Sola scriptura is a formal principle of many Protestant Christian denominations, and one of the five solae theorized in the early 20th Century, in attempts to characterize common ground in disparate Protestant theologies.
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