A Catholic Critique of the Protestant Doctrine of Sola Scriptura
Edited by Dr. Robert Sungenis · 2013 · ISBN 978-1-939856-00-5
Sola scriptura says that Scripture alone is the rule of faith. The difficulty is that the list of which books count as Scripture is not itself in Scripture. No book of the Bible contains an index of the Bible. Somebody settled the question, and settling it was an act of exactly the authority the doctrine denies to anyone.
This volume takes that problem apart from several directions at once, which is why it is a collaboration rather than one man asserting a case. Patrick Madrid opens on the fallacies the argument rests on. Philip Blosser takes the philosophical incoherence. Fr. Mitchell Pacwa handles the exegesis of Matthew 15 and Mark 7, the two passages most often used against tradition. Joseph Gallegos goes through the Fathers century by century and shows what they actually believed about Scripture, tradition and the authority of the Church.
A formal debate between Patrick Madrid and the Protestant writer Douglas Jones is printed in full, so a reader can watch the argument happen rather than take the editors' word for how it went.