Soli Deo gloria

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For John Eliot Gardiner's record label, see Soli Deo Gloria (label)

Soli Deo gloria is one of the five solas propounded to summarise the Reformers' basic beliefs during the Protestant Reformation; it is a Latin term for Glory to God alone. The emphasis was allegedly in contradistinction to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church of the day.

Johann Sebastian Bach signed his sheets of handwritten music with the initials "SDG". St. John of the Cross used a similar phrase, "Soli Deo honor et gloria", in his Precautions and Counsels.

[edit] See also

• Apotheosis
• Veneration

[edit] External links

• Articles on the five solas from a conservative Protestant perspective