I’m still working my way through it, but this essay by N.T. Wright on scriptural authority is so good I’m having trouble deciding what to excerpt for you. But here is an exceptionally good (and rather large) nugget: Let me offer you a possible model, which is not in fact simply an illustration but actually [...]

Tags: N.T. Wright, Nota Bene, Scripture, Theology

… can be found here.  I was struck by the author’s point that both Protestantism’s Sola Scriptura and modern Catholicism’s (post-Newman) doctrinal development denies the material sufficiency of the early and medieval church’s understanding of tradition. Lane is saying that with Cardinal Henry Newman’s idea of the development of doctrine, tradition itself becomes materially insufficient because a [...]

Tags: Nota Bene, Scripture, Theology, Tradition