allow for an interpretative tradition not adding to Scripture but did not see either this tradition or ecclesiastical teaching as infallible.”27 Tradition, then, was not seen “as a normative interpretation of Scripture” or “as a necessary supplement to it but rather as a tool to be used to help the church to understand it.”28 Accordingly, whereas the church fathers “accepted the inherited faith because it was [considered to be] apostolic tradition,” the magisterial “Reformers accepted the (traditional)