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Sola Scriptura: An Orthodox Analysis of the Cornerstone of Reformation Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Sola Scriptura offers an Orthodox analysis of a pillar of Protestantism: private interpretation of Scripture. Father John Whiteford argues that this doctrine is based on fallacies and explains the Orthodox approach to Holy Scripture. This text is no longer available in print, but can now become a valuable part of your Logos library.

To begin with, we should ask what the Apostle Paul is talking about when he speaks of the “Holy Scriptures” Saint Timothy has known since he was a child. We can be sure that Saint Paul is not referring to the New Testament, because the New Testament had not yet been written when Saint Timothy was a child. In fact, only a few of the books of the New Testament had been written when Saint Paul wrote this epistle to Saint Timothy. They certainly had not been collected together into the canon of the New
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