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Casey Chalk

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Casey Chalk is the author of The Obscurity of Scripture: Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Biblical Perspicuity (Emmaus Road). He is a senior contributor at The Federalist and an editor and columnist at the New Oxford Review. He has a Bachelor’s in history and Master’s in teaching from the University of Virginia and a Master’s in theology from Christendom College.

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