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Athanasian Denial of Scripture’s Formal Sufficiency?
Sean Patrick of the Called to Communion blog has been providing some responses in the comment box in an earlier post (SP was primarily using the nick “Blogahon”). SP has suggested that the following quotation from Athanasius negates the idea that Athanasius held to the formal sufficiency of Scripture. SP provides the quotation in this…
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Magisterium More Sufficient than Scripture? (Part 7)
[Cont’d from previous section] Is the Roman Catholic Magisterium More Sufficient than Sacred Scripture?Bryan Cross answered on the subject of the ability of the Scripture to interpret Scripture sufficiently, from Scripture, reason, and tradition. (Part 7) Basil of Caesarea (about A.D. 329-379): You could find many passages of this sort in the writings of the…
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Magisterium More Sufficient than Scripture? (Part 6)
[Cont’d from previous section] Is the Roman Catholic Magisterium More Sufficient than Sacred Scripture?Bryan Cross answered on the subject of the ability of the Scripture to interpret Scripture sufficiently, from Scripture, reason, and tradition. (Part 6) 2 Peter 1:19-20 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 29/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 29/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 29) If the early Church believed in sola Scriptura, why do the creeds of the early Church always say…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 28/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 28/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 28) If Jesus intended for Christianity to be exclusively a “religion of the book,” why did He wait 1400…
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Augustine: Scripture Can Thoroughly Equip the Man of God – Response to Taylor Marshall
Psalm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Augustine believed that Scripture itself is able to thoroughly equip a man to the point where Scripture itself would no longer be necessary for that man, except to teach less mature Christians. Taylor…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 27/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 27/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 27) If sola Scriptura is so solid and biblically based, why has there never been a full treatise written…
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The Recent Squirm of Mr. Marshall (by Pastor King)
(Post by Pastor David T. King) Mr. Marshall’s having suddenly “bumped into a zinger” from the language of Augustine in De doctrina Christiana (Book I, 39, 34) indicates to us his own unfamiliarity with this ancient African theologian, especially in terms of the development of Augustine’s mature convictions regarding the necessity of Holy Scripture. A.…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 26/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 26/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 26) How could the Apostle Thomas establish the church in India that survives to this day (and is now…
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Literature on the Early Roman Church
The early Roman church was a remarkable church. It was not, however, much like the Roman Catholic church. In an interesting post, John Bugay at Reformation 500 has explored some of the scholarly literature relating to the issue of the development of the papacy (link to post). To God be the Glory!