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While scripture has unique authority, the history of theology, especially as that history is embodied in the actions of the church, is to be taken very seriously. This represents neither a Catholic view of an authoritative church magisterium in matters of interpretation; nor a later, individualistic theological piety of the kind so often associated, rightly or wrongly, with later evangelicalism; rather, it is a typical Reformation approach to both history and the church, one which takes tradition seriously while yet striving to give final, decisive authority to scripture.