As an Evangelical Protestant who embraced sola scriptura, I found myself not entirely comfortable with the pope’s critique of “biblicism,” which he defined as a perspective “which tends to make the reading and exegesis of Sacred Scripture the sole criterion of truth.”8 Although my discomfort was the result of the late pontiff’s appeal to the Church’s magisterium as the authoritative interpreter of Scripture,9 I concluded that he was correct that Scripture could not by itself be the source of theological