Solo Scriptura, Sola Scriptura, and Apostolic Succession

TurretinFan Blog ^ | Tuesday, February 15, 2011 | Keith Mathison

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In November 2009, the Roman Catholic website Called to Communion posted an article titled Solo Scriptura, Sola Scriptura, and the Question of Interpretive Authority, critiquing one of the claims of my book The Shape of Sola Scriptura (Canon Press, 2001). The article is attributed to Bryan Cross and Dr. Neal Judisch. According to their website, Cross is a graduate of Covenant Theological Seminary (M.Div.) and currently a Ph.D. student at Saint Louis University. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 2006. Judisch is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oklahoma and a 2008 convert to Roman Catholicism. Like the other regular authors at Called to Communion, Cross and Judisch come from a Reformed background and are relatively recent converts to Roman Catholicism.

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Revivals come and they go. The generation after the Great Awaking, perhaps in rebellion against the zeal of their parents and older brothers, was more secular. But two generation later, as awareness of the atheism of the French Revolution began to penetrate our upper classes, the “Second”Awakening had tremendous effect. In 1789, most Americans did not belong to a church community. By 1860, the vast majority did. But the period afterwards, with Darwin as a marker, the upper classes began to separate God from their lives, although they still paid homage to the Christian morality. Carleton J.H.Hayes, the Catholic historian, has a good survey of the period, “A Generation of Materialism,” It all led to a day of the Lord in August, 1914, when all the sins of Europe came crashing down their heads. I fear the same turning away from God may lead our nation to like disaster. Despite the long prosperity the Europeans have enjoyed, their societies are decadent. literally dying out.