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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...

TERTULLIAN (CA. 155–220) Tertullian’s explanation of the relationship between the Scripture, tradition, and the Church does not differ in any significant way from that of Irenaeus. Like Irenaeus, he does not contrast Scripture and tradition; instead he claims the oral preaching of the Apostles was written down in Scripture.19 For Tertullian, as Kelly explains, “Scripture has absolute authority; whatever it teaches is necessarily true, and woe betide [“befall”] him who accepts doctrines not discoverable
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