Hello there, and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast.

My name is Caleb Keith.

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We were missing my dad because of a oopsies that I made last week.

But that'll be okay.

And today we are continuing our little series on the solas of the Reformation.

Today we are doing Sola Fide, which means faith alone.

The solos of the Reformation are these alone phrases that Protestants often cling to as sort of a good summary of their central teachings and doctrines.

We are doing this series in order to explain part of the way of how these solas came about, why they

were important during the Reformation, and why they are important today, sort of give a peek

into their development, sort of cover why they may not be super frequently used, actually, by the magisterial reformers themselves in certain

cases and in other cases they are used quite frequently and then why they today remain as sort of

slogans or work together for a slogan for the reformation for Lutherans and those in other Reformation traditions.

Today, like I said, we are doing Sola Fide, Faith Alone. We're taking turns hosting these episodes,

and this is my episode to host. And so I'm just going to start with, I guess, I think Sola Fide as far as I can find,

and anybody can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, if you think I'm wrong,

might be the earliest use of a Sola phrase.

I can find it really consistently throughout the 1521 Lochi communos of Philip and

length. I think, I mean, I didn't reread the whole Lochi. I read select sections of it, and I found

it at least 10 times in a section on faith and justification. And so it's,

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