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Prima Scriptura

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I wrote an article exploring a viable alternative to Sola Scriptura over at the Emergent Village blog.  Here’s a little taste.

“You emergent-y, postmodern-ish types just want to do away with Scripture! You don’t want to take the time to seriously wrestle with the Bible!”

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard those lines or something similar. You would think I developed a good answer a long, long time ago but I didn’t. For far too long I only spoke about the ways I didn’t want to view Scripture, which really only exacerbated the problem. Too many of us do that. I would like to suggest an alternative descriptive to our view of Scripture, something that is both positive and constructive.

Phyllis Tickle has suggested that it’s not if Sola Scriptura ends, but when. So what comes next? As much as I love to tag the “p word” before words, I’m not so sure it is sufficient for us to simply say we are post-Sola Scriptura. The Bible is too important for us to only strike-through the “sola.” And I think that many of us who resonate very deeply with Tickle’s sentiment take Scripture too seriously to only be reactionary. Frankly, we can’t afford to.

Read the rest at Emergent Village.

Written by Blake Huggins

May 25th, 2009 at 3:00 pm

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  • thephantomjourneymister

    Ah continual metanoia… Those troubled might do well to revisit what many consider the greatest American theological thinkers of the last century, that is, the works of RN and HRN. After all with continual metanoia we do well to remember Sola Fide too! Prima Scriptura. Reminds me of having both vertical and horizontal vision. Come to think of it, I see that best in the life of Jesus Christ.

  • thephantomjourneymister

    Ah continual metanoia… Those troubled might do well to revisit what many consider the greatest American theological thinkers of the last century, that is, the works of RN and HRN. After all with continual metanoia we do well to remember Sola Fide too! Prima Scriptura. Reminds me of having both vertical and horizontal vision. Come to think of it, I see that best in the life of Jesus Christ.