Dangerous to whom? Oh, I know, to the Home Office, pictured below:
Good point!
For if one simply READS the words of God (”God-breathed”), then one not only CAN come to a different conclusion, but USUALLY does. Hence the push by reformers to get scripture into the hands of the laity in their own tongue. Wycliffe felt confident that it would win the argument for him, and I agree.
Hence this quote from the October 2008 Synod of Bishops, on the thread A Literate Church: The state of Catholic Bible study today [article from America: The National Catholic Weekly:
...while fewer believers know much about the Bible, one-third of Americans continue to believe that it is literally true, something organizers of the Synod on the Word of God called a dangerous form of fundamentalism that is “winning more and more adherents…even among Catholics.” Such literalism, the synod’s preparatory document said, “demands an unshakable adherence to rigid doctrinal points of view and imposes, as the only source of teaching for Christian life and salvation, a reading of the Bible which rejects all questioning and any kind of critical research”....See also this thread, covering the same Synod:
"As we begin the work of this synodal assembly, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, let us turn our gaze to Christ, the light of the world and our only teacher," Cardinal Levada encouraged.The prelate's point was further developed when Cardinal Marc Ouellet, archbishop of Quebec, took the floor to affirm that the Word is much more than the Bible. He clarified that Christianity is not a religion of the Book.
"The Word of God means before all else God himself who speaks, who expresses in himself the divine Word that belongs to his intimate mystery," he said.
This Word, he added during his Latin-language discourse, which he delivered seated beside the Pope, speaks in a particular and also dramatic way in the history of man, especially in the election of a people, in the Mosaic law and the prophets.
Whatever your view of Holy Tradition, that the Word of God is not limited to the words of Scripture is very obviously true. To believe otherwise is quite an absurd position. That’s again, I’m guessing, a sola scriptura result?
Dangerous to whom? Oh, I know, to the Home Office, pictured below: