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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...
BASIL THE GREAT (CA. 330–379) It is in the fourth-century writings of Basil the Great that we find for the first time the suggestion “that the Christian owes equal respect and obedience to written and to unwritten ecclesiastical traditions, whether contained in canonical writings or in secret oral tradition handed down by the Apostles through their successors.”51 The passage in question is found in Basil’s treatise On the Holy Spirit. He writes, Of the beliefs and practices whether generally accepted
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