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All Blog Posts With Tag: Sola Scriptura
The scripture principle (of sola scripture) was the foundation of the Protestant Reformation, and allowed a period of discovery and theological advancement that was achieved by using the Holy Scriptures to challenge the long standing traditional doctrines of the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, this dangerous idea of the Reformation resulted in a […]
Karl Barth on the Appeal to Scripture: Have We Created a Myth? (September 16, 2014)
Codex Gigas (source: wikipedia)
Jesus Christ is the Word of God in the flesh.
We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life. (1 John 1:1 […]
Karl Barth on modern Biblicism: is it an Absolutism of the Enlightenment? (October 28, 2013)
Karl Barth
I found the following quotation from Karl Barth in his Church Dogmatics I.2 on the problem of modern Biblicism. Biblicism may be described as the error of turning the excellent doctrine of sola scriptura of the Reformers into the erroneous idea of solo scriptura. It is also a distortion […]
John T. McNeill, On John Calvin’s View of Scripture (January 18, 2013)
John Calvin
Did John Calvin hold to a doctrine of the Scriptures that is rejected by the Reformed Confessions? And would Calvin's understanding of Scripture be accepted as acceptable by most Evangelical Churches in America today? It seems that according to John T. McNeill's Introduction to his edition of the "Institutes […]