This ninth video in my recent systematic theology course for an amazing school in S. Asia gets into a question that I’ve been thinking about a fair amount lately, the relationship between Scripture and tradition. We Protestants sometimes get confused about how authority works and, unfortunately, can be inclined to through out the baby with the bathwater. That is, we sometimes imagine that since the Bible is the very word of God, why would we need to listen to any other authorities? “Away,” we say, “with creeds and councils and theologians and all their stuffy books!”
Well, perhaps not surprisingly, I take a different path in this video. I argue that we do well to listen humbly to authorities that proclaim the same gospel as Scripture proclaims.
By the way, I found most of the chapters in Reformed Catholicity by Scott Swain and Michael Allen to be helpful in thinking about this topic.
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