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In the year 1054, the Great Schism occurred, dividing the Eastern Orthodox Church from the Western Church down to the present day. In the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation resulted in a further division of the Western Church into the Roman Catholic Church and various Protestant churches. In a previous series on this blog, I … Read more
The sixteenth century Protestant Reformation called into question various aspects of late medieval Church teaching having to do with the nature of the Church, the sacraments, and the relationship between the authority of Scripture and the authority of Church tradition. Arguably the biggest issue that eventually divided Protestantism from Roman Catholicism, though, had to do … Read more
In a previous post, I addressed a popular interpretation of the Protestant principle of sola scriptura (“Scripture alone”), arguing that Protestants still must acknowledge church tradition to be to some extent authoritative, even if Scripture is their highest theological authority. In this post, I will address a popular interpretation of the Protestant principle of sola … Read more