St. Paul’s authority was accepted in faith by his followers. He spoke with great authority. He said he was delivering truth and tradition, and he expected his followers to accept it without question.
One of the distinctive Protestant principles is expressed in the slogan sola scriptura, which is Latin for “by Scripture only.” The idea is that every teaching on faith or morals must be directly or ...
Orthodox Christians do not hold to the Reformation principle of Sola scriptura. Instead, we view the scriptures as the pinnacle or “summit” 1 of holy tradition, neither separating the two as wholly ...
Today we continue our look at a set of doctrinal truths which, during the Protestant Reformation, came to be known as “The Five Solas.” These five biblical truths, though they were not systematically ...
On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenburg Church, igniting the Protestant Reformation. Luther was not trying to start a political or a spiritual revolution ...
The basic argument of what Joseph Borg Xuereb and other correspondents (The Sunday Times, July 1) argue about the Bible is the advanced principle of Sola Scriptura (Latin for Scripture alone).
Being raised in a Protestant home, the Scriptures were (and in many ways still are) the end-all-be-all of the faith for me. However, there is a reason I am no longer a Protestant. This reason has many ...
Tuesday, Oct. 31, is Reformation Day, the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther, a Roman Catholic priest, wanted a public debate on the Church's practice of ...