Not By Scripture Alone: A Catholic Critique of the Protestant Doctrine of Sola Scriptura 2nd Edition, 2019

This is the 2019 Second Edition.

Sooner or later every Catholic is told that the Bible alone is the final authority. Not By Scripture Alone is the handbook for answering that claim. It rebuts, on both biblical and epistemological grounds, every argument Protestants have advanced for Sola Scriptura, and it gathers a wealth of selections from the Church Fathers that refute the “Bible only” doctrine introduced in the sixteenth century.

Among the first works by modern Catholic scholars to take up this contention in full, its more than 600 pages carry extensive footnotes and appendices, examine the original Greek and Hebrew, weigh past and present Protestant theologians, and cite the patristic Fathers, the medieval theologians, the Ecumenical Councils, and the Catholic catechism. Is the Bible the last word, or are the Church and her Tradition additional infallible authorities on earth? The book challenges Protestant and Catholic alike to reexamine what they believe. It carries the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur of the Catholic Church, with a Foreword by Dr. Peter Kreeft.

Contributors include: Philip Blosser, Ph.D. (Lenoir-Rhyne College); Robert Fastiggi, Ph.D. (St. Edwards University); Joseph Gallegos (Catholic Apologist); Patrick Madrid (Editor: Envoy Magazine); Rev. Mitchell Pacwa, Ph.D. (University of Dallas); Mark Shea (Author: By What Authority); Rev. Peter Stravinskas, Ph.D. (Editor: The Catholic Answer); Robert Sungenis (Author: Not By Faith Alone).

Peter Kreeft, Ph.D. (Boston College) says, “Not By Scripture Alone is the single, most important, systematic, logical, sustained, direct, multifaceted treatment of this central issue that I know of.”