What is the easiest book to understand? According to an advocate of Eastern Orthodoxy I've been interacting with, Luther claimed it was ...

The following is an overview by William Whitaker of a section of Luther's argumentation from T he Bondage of the Will . This passage is...

Here's another Called to Communion tidbit  on the textual errors in the Latin Vulgate: A reader might wonder how the Church could det...

A few days ago I posted some excerpts from William Whitaker's Disputations on Holy Scripture . One of the major arguments during his ti...

Whitaker comes to the defense of four arguments from Calvin, which Stapleton attempts to refute, the first of which is (in the words of Calv...

Whitaker's eighth argument defending Sola Scriptura can be summarized (with a small amount of liberty) as follows: P 1 . The oral rev...

Whitaker's seventh argument in defense of Sola Scriptura needs no additional commentary: Our seventh argument is taken from 1 Thess. i...

Roman Catholics will tell us that we need to consult the Magisterium in order to know what Scripture is, to understand it and to settle the ...

The following series of posts will (briefly) examine some of Whitaker's arguments where he proves that the binding authority of God'...

This is the last of Whitaker's responses to Stapleton's positive arguments for the authority of the Magisterium that we will review....

Stapleton's fourth argument is as follows (all material taken from pages 312-316 of Disputations ): The apocryphal books of the second ...

Do Disagreements between Christians Refute an Appeal to the Holy Spirit as Testimony to the Canon? In Part 3 of this series we looked at Whi...

Sometimes Roman Catholics will argue using formal sufficiency without admitting to it. William Whitaker (1547-1595): Indeed all the papists...

The Internal Testimony of the Holy Spirit and External Testimony to the Veracity of the Canon Stapleton's third argument is that Scriptu...