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..rist's redemption to a perishing world. W. ARNDT The Sola Scriptura and Its Modern Antithesis I It is indeed correct to say that the outstanding achievement of Luther's Reformation was the recovery, clarification, and vindica- tion of the sola gratia (sola fide) . That truly was a pre-eminent accomplishment, an almost miraculous attainment, as it appears to everyone who considers how thoroughly Rome had succeeded in burying this articulus omnium fundamentaIissimus under the rubbish of its extreme work-righteousness program.1 ) Luther in a most lucid manner, in learned treatises (De Servo Arbitrio ), in sermons, intelligible to the simplest layman, and in songs made known far and wide the Gospel message of God's free and full grace 1) Cf. Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte (Die Lehre Luthers) . Von Reinhold Seeberg. Vierter Band, erste Abteilung, pp. 124 fl. Also L ehr - huch der S ymbolik. Von Wilh. Walther, pp. 363 fl.