Historical Theology: Dr. Gregg Allison (#19): The Authority of Holy Scri...

Amazingly and convincingly, Prof. Allison makes a cogent case for Canonical Scripture + Unwritten, Papally approved traditions, dual sources of authority, coming to age in the 14th century. An amazing date for the transition. Even Anselm and Aquinas, for better or worse, held to Sola Scriptura as the sovereign authority over reason and tradition. If the 14th century is the mark of this serious shift (adding to Scriptures), it's the same century/time-frame for Jan Huss and our beloved John Wycliffe of Oxford and Lutterworth, UK. It's indubitable that Sola Scriptura was the invocation and belief of the church in its early centuries. Dr. Cranmer nails that perspicuous manifesto to the bulkhead and mast in far better ways than Luther. What is new, to this scribe, is to find the substantial shift in/to the 14th century, although methinks the shift may have been in the offing long before that, e.g. Lateran 4 of 1215, inter alia. But, Prof. Allison cites Romanist writers who easily concede they practice/believe what is NOT in the canonical Scriptures--14th century writers. Hence, Luther's view is late, not early. Simply a recovery of the old ways.

SGT-of-the-Guard: "Please escort Dr. Emil Brunner and Francis 1 to the brig. That is all."