Sentences with phrase «scriptura principle»

For them, the «sola Scriptura principle is meant to shape engagement of the catholic tradition rather than to exclude it.»

I suppose these critical remarks boil down to the following questions: Can the sola Scriptura principle coexist with a view of the Church that is truly anchored «deep in history»?

It is this complexity which I wish to analyze in order that I may say how it is that evangelical theologians today ought to construe the significance of the sola scriptura principle for their work.

That is what it means to have an inspired Scripture and this is the import of the sola scriptura principle for doctrine.

But in truth the Reformation's sola scriptura principle was always nestled in the catholic tradition and came to expression in the uninterrupted affirmation of ancient dogma and a long coherent tradition of ethical interpretation.

Not exact matches

It reflects the same reductionist impulse of those Christians who transmute the Protestant principle of sola scriptura (scripture as the highest authority) into nuda scriptura (scripture as the only authority), and accordingly read the Bible as though the ancient councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, or Chalcedon had never happened.

Furthermore, any understanding of «sola scriptura» that totally divorces reason, experience, and tradition from the interpretation process is a misunderstanding of that principle.

Doctrinally, Calvary Chapel is evangelical, dispensational, pretribulationist, and believes in the principle of sola scriptura.

I do not elsewhere «skewer» conservatives for their devotion to the founders» intentions because of its resemblance to the principle of sola scriptura — I note this mostly as a bemused observation — but because, apparently unlike Reilly, I do not subscribe to a «Great Man» view of historical agency and historiography in which the mens auctoris provides the definitive key to the meaning of texts or historical events.

To many ears this sounded like a reaffirmation of the Reformation principle of sola scriptura.

Elsewhere, Hanby has skewered conservatives for stressing the importance of the «founders» intent» as perhaps «simply a secular echo of the Protestant principle of sola scriptura and the quest for a univocal meaning.»

Thus, theology, even that theology which seeks to adhere to the principle of sola scriptura, becomes in practice the dynamic blending of Biblical, traditional, and contemporary sources.

It is charged that it is only among those who have not maintained the principle of sola scriptura that doctrinal differences on central areas of the faith have surfaced.

Unintentionally, Jewett has used the notion of intention to undercut sola scriptura, the very principle he seeks to affirm.

First, the Evangelical signatories fudge on their supposed bedrock principle of sola scriptura.

Therefore the principle of discontinuity must be counterbalanced by the interior claim of the biblical text itself, according to the principle of the analogia scripturae: the mechanical principle must be balanced by the teleological principle.

This problem seems to be an inescapable consequence of the principle of sola Scriptura, which the Reformed catholic theologians staunchly defend, albeit in sophisticated form.

It is ironic that the Reformation principle of sola scriptura, much misunderstood, has led to the neglect among Protestants of older biblical commentaries, even those of the reformers themselves.