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An Introduction to the Reformed Tradition
If someone would ask me, "What is a Reformed church?" this is what I am going to tell him.
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The Origin of Five Solas
It seems that the 5 solas are really a modern formula by a modern author attempting to summarize the essential doctrines of the reformation.