Friday, November 11, 2011

Methodists and Sola Scriptura part 3

The first two posts in this series can be found here and here

In looking around Wesley's Works, I also came across this in his response to the Roman Catholic Catechism:

Where the catechism discusses the authoritative nature of Scripture AND tradition, the position sola scriptura agitates against, Wesley says: "The Scripture is a rule sufficient in itself, and was by men divinely inspired delivered to the world, and so neither needs nor is capable of, any further addition" (Works, vol 9, p 90).

In discussing the "magisterium," or teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church, Wesley says, "As long as we have the Scripture, the Church is to be referred to the Scripture, and not the Scripture to the Church; and that, as the Scripture is the best expounder of itself, so the best way to know whether anything be of divine authority is to apply ourselves to the Scripture" (Works, vol 9, p 94)

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