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The Shape of Sola Scriptura
In what shape do we find the doctrine of sola Scriptura today? Many modern Evangelicals see it as a license to ignore history and the creeds in favor of a more splintered approach to the Christian living. In the past two decades, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox apologists have strongly tried to undermine sola Scriptura as unbiblical, unhistorical, and impractical. But ...more
Paperback, 368 pages
Published
April 18th 2001
by Canon Press
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Mathison does a good job in carefully defining his terms and in reading historical movements. The following is not so much an analysis, but a summary of Mathison's main points:
Mathison says any discussion of sola scriptura is meaningless without a corresponding meaning of tradition. This is his strongest argument in the book. Mathison builds his argument from world-renowned medieval scholars and also from the greatest church historian of the past 3 centuries--Jaroslav Pelikan (ironically, an ...more
Mathison says any discussion of sola scriptura is meaningless without a corresponding meaning of tradition. This is his strongest argument in the book. Mathison builds his argument from world-renowned medieval scholars and also from the greatest church historian of the past 3 centuries--Jaroslav Pelikan (ironically, an ...more
Acerbic. I liked the first half of the book, which laid out a very nice examination of how ideas about the relationship between tradition and the church have developed, changed, and branched out over time. But I didn't really like the second half, which became increasingly repetitive and sarcastic. (In the conclusion, "liberal" and "heretic" are used in the same sentence. I nearly snorted coffee out my nose in the coffee shop on campus. Oops.) Not recommended as a genera...more
Helpful but limited. Mathison doesn't get into the real bottom-line, in my opinion. A foundation in natural revelation/reason would be more helpful. On this, see Bavinck and August Lecerf.
That every Protestant would read it.
A really good book looking at both the biblical and historical view of the Scriptures. He section on "Solo Scriptura," that is the view that each individual Christian can interpret the Bible however he pleases, is great tonic for much of what ails Protestant hermeneutics.
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