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Material Principle.

The material principle of the Luth. Ch. is the doctrine of justification* by faith alone (sola* fide). See also Faith, Justifying.

W. H. T. Dau, “The Heritage of Lutheranism,” What Lutherans Are Thinking, ed. E. C. Fendt (Columbus, Ohio, 1947), pp. 9–25.


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