![Content: What biblical ideas are affirmed or omitted and in what way?
e.g. Gal 3:10-13
10 For all who rely on works of Gregory of Nazianzus
the law are under a curse; for it is
(330-390)
written, “Cursed be everyone who
does not abide by all things written “As for my sake He was called a
in the Book of the Law, and do curse, Who destroyed my curse,
them.” 11 Now it is evident that no
one is justified before God by the
and sin, who taketh away the sin
law, for “The righteous shall live by of the world.” (The Fourth
faith.” [1] 12 But the law is not of Theological Oration)
faith, rather “The one who does
them shall live by them.” 13 Christ
redeemed us from the curse of the
law by becoming a curse for us—for George Whitefield (1714-70)
it is written, “Cursed is everyone
who is hanged on a tree”—
“For these Jesus Christ died a
painful, cursed, ignominous death;
and by his obedience, and by his
death, wrought an everlasting
righteousness for them.” (‘Sermons
Preached’)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/solascripturainpractice-100709062000-phpapp02/85/Sola-scriptura-in-practice-13-320.jpg)
Sola scriptura in practice
- 1. How do we get our theology from church history?
- 2. But why is church history important? Sola Scriptura
- 3. But why is church history important? Sola Scriptura not Solo Scriptura
- 4. Sola Scriptura not Solo Scriptura Everyone reads the Bible with a bias! The Bible our bias
- 5. So who should control our bias? How we feel Church today? The Vatican tradition? in Rome? The “bias” through which we understand the Bible The Bible
- 6. Solo Scriptura means: My pastor I saw a said ... documentary on TV ... This Blog It makes said ... more sense if...
- 7. But Sola Scriptura means: Although the Bible has authority over tradition, we use church history in these four ways, to build our theology ... Content Continuation Context Clarity
- 8. The Roman Catholic Church rejects Sola Scriptura Not the church The Pope past but the said ... Vatican now. The church is It’s Official above Scripture
- 9. So the way we understand the Bible is a cycle: We understand the bible through a particular bias The Bible has authority over church tradition Church tradition shapes our bias
- 10. But it’s a biblical cycle: We understand the bible through a particular bias: The Bible has authority There are some things in them that over church tradition: are hard to understand, which the Now these Jews were ignorant and unstable twist to their more noble than those own destruction, as they do the in Thessalonica; they other Scriptures. (2 Peter 3:16) received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. (Acts 17:11) Church tradition shapes our bias: “I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.” (Acts 17:23)
- 11. Sola Scriptura: Content Continuation Context Clarity So this is how we get our theology from Church History ...
- 12. Content What biblical ideas are affirmed or omitted and in what way?
- 13. Content: What biblical ideas are affirmed or omitted and in what way? e.g. Gal 3:10-13 10 For all who rely on works of Gregory of Nazianzus the law are under a curse; for it is (330-390) written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written “As for my sake He was called a in the Book of the Law, and do curse, Who destroyed my curse, them.” 11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the and sin, who taketh away the sin law, for “The righteous shall live by of the world.” (The Fourth faith.” [1] 12 But the law is not of Theological Oration) faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for George Whitefield (1714-70) it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— “For these Jesus Christ died a painful, cursed, ignominous death; and by his obedience, and by his death, wrought an everlasting righteousness for them.” (‘Sermons Preached’)
- 14. Continuation How much of what was said is continued?
- 15. Continuation: How much of what was said is continued? e.g. In about c300 AD So in 325 The Nicene Arius Creed recognizes claims Jesus is only a Jesus as God created being ... But a few decades later Athanasius opposes the now widespread Arianism
- 16. Context Who says what when?
- 17. Context: Who says what when? e.g. 4. Furthermore, 5. And before Luther in Protestant-like England as well, ideas appear a with John hundred years Wycliffe. before Luther in Hungary with John Hus. 1. We assume the Refromation begins with Luther in Germany 2. But Luther was an Augustinian monk, schooled in the ideas of Augustine who lived and worked in North Africa 1,000 years earlier
- 18. Clarity How much did persecution, other philosophical ideas or cultural moods affect, or not affect, what they said?
- 19. Clarity: How much did persecution, other philosophical ideas or cultural moods affect, or not affect, what they said? e.g. A Platonic conception Lived during times of of how the cosmos persecution worked Origen
- 20. So that’s how we get our theology from Church history/tradition. Content Continuation Context Clarity (Now admittedly some relative method are useful but not determinative; such as the what the majority says or who says it most eloquently.)
- 21. But church history/tradition is only one of three, interlocking, parts of how to understand the Bible Wisdom (common sense) Church history/ tradition Prayer