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In what shape do we find the doctrine of sola Scriptura today? Many modern Evangelicals see it as a license to ignore history and the creeds in favor of a more splintered approach to the Christian living. In the past two decades, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox apologists have strongly tried to undermine sola Scriptura as unbiblical, unhistorical, and impractical. But these groups rest their...

In his defense of apostolic Christianity, Irenaeus developed the concept of the regula fidei or the “rule of faith.”10 The regula fidei was essentially the content of the profession of faith that every catechumen was asked to recite from memory before his or her baptism. It was a summary of the faith taught by the Apostles and committed to their disciples.11 Whereas the Gnostics appealed to a secret unwritten tradition, Irenaeus appealed to the public tradition of the Church. Does this mean that
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