The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum 'Catholocism and Fundamentalism' by Karl Keating

AJC,

In addition to Pilgrim's list you should also read Keith Mathison's The Shape of Sola Scriptura (2001). Especially helpful is his tracing of the multi-generational, often incremental, steps by which biblical soundness on certain, but not all, core doctrines devolved over time from the apostles through the pafs and ecfs onward through the middle ages; helpful because RC apologists frequently paint all Protestants as believing that there was no church on earth between the death of John and the nailing of the 95 Theses, while the Reformers insisted upon a continuous church with varying degrees of purity based on its faithfulness to Sola Scriptura.

His primary focus, developing work by Heiko Oberman, is showing that a hermeneutic in which all questions of tradition must be validated against Scripture alone (as opposed to being either tested on other grounds (the predominant modern Catholic/Orthodox tendency) or rejected out of hand (the predominant modern Protestant tendency)) is clearly present both in the apostles, their near successors, and the healthiest ages of the church since.

If you are unable to get the book, I see there is a pretty thorough review of it in the middle of the reviews at Amazon.