{"id":6605,"date":"2024-02-10T23:42:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T23:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=6605"},"modified":"2025-01-29T02:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T02:21:14","slug":"sola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=6605","title":{"rendered":"Sola"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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This short interview by Timothy Wengert about Volker Leppin’s book, “Sola: Christ, Grace, Faith and Scripture Alone in Martin Luther’s Theology” covers these four foundational truths and how important they were to him.<\/p>

Leppin provides astute answers to various questions not only about why he wrote this book, but demonstrates a deep understanding of Luther’s use of the “Sola’s” throughout his works.<\/p>

Enjoy the interview and also feel free to purchase the book from Fortress Press<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>

Timothy Wengert<\/strong><\/em> is emeritus professor of church history at the United Lutheran Seminary (Philadelphia). After serving as a parish pastor for seven years in Minnesota and Wisconsin, he taught on Philadelphia’s faculty from 1989-2013. He has written, co-edited, and translated many books on Philip Melanchthon and Martin Luther.<\/p>

Volker Leppin<\/strong><\/em> is a German Protestant theologian and the Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale Divinity School. A historian of medieval and Reformation studies, his research focuses on scholasticism and mysticism in the late Middle Ages. He is a prolific author of 19 monographs and 11 critical editions of text, the editor or co-editor of 49 books, and the author of more than 300 scholarly articles or chapters.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Having trouble watching the video?\u00a0 Watch directly on YouTube HERE.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This short interview by Timothy Wengert about Volker Leppin\u2019s book, \u201cSola: Christ, Grace, Faith and Scripture Alone in Martin Luther\u2019s Theology\u201d covers these 4 truths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-talks","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6605"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7070,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions\/7070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}