Wow. I don’t know that I’ve ever been “vigorously dealt with” before. But hey, bring on the NR thumb screws! I’m all for a return to the scary mean dark ages, right?
I don’t think Graeme is actually reading anything written here, and that’s about as charitable as I can be.
Lawrence on the other hand makes a reasoned, though I think misguided, point. Yes, I affirm the Reformational principle of sola scriptura, but only as it was articulated and practiced by the Reformers who never understood or sought to understand Scripture appart from an authoritative reading community. It is in fact the modern evangelical tendency to think of Scripture wholly apart from any authoritative community that is at odds with most of historical and confessional Protestantism. A fault that leads to increasingly liberal readings from one generation to the next.
