Tradition and Innovation, Response

The following is a response from Gerry McDermott to my response to his response to my essay. The remainder of this post is from Gerry:

I agree that Newman’s “continuity of principle” can be slippery in application. The question begged is indeed, “Who decides”?

Which makes the question all the more important for Protestants. Liberal Protestants have chucked the theological tradition and even the Bible as normative for answering the question. For, as they would say, the tradition and the biblical...