CAJ 4:1 (Spring 2005) p. 128 of the Fathers. What it does not, and should not, do is what Mathison does, namely, to accept without justification the Roman Catholic thesis that the tradition of the Church is both ecclesiastically authoritative and hermeneutically necessary for a proper understanding of the Bible. In view of the historical facts, Mathison’s conclusion about “Tradition 0” is lavish in the extreme when he wrote: “It is rebellion in the name of God against the authority of God for the