Michael Horton CCT Lecture – If Reformed, the catholic: Revisiting Sola Scriptura
Was sola scriptura the invention of the Reformation? Or were Protestants retrieving the church’s view of scritpure, from the church fathers to the best of the medieval scholastics? At the 2024 Center for Classical Theology in San Diego, Michael Horton delivered a lecture answering these very questions. In this lecture his focus is not the Reformation, he says, but the ancient church. Ironically, evangelicals too often surrender patristic sources to post-Tridentine Roman Catholic apologists as well as Eastern Orthodox apologists. First, Horton defines sola scripture. Second, he explores how scripture functions in the ancient church. Third, he asks whether the doctrine must lead to division. He is convinced that a commitment to Reformation principles requires a return to patristic tradition and patristic tradition requires a return to sola scriptura.
Credo will also post the Q&A discussion between Horton, BK Beale, and Craig Carter in the near future. To learn more, visit The Center for Classical Theology whose annual lecture is sponsored by Crossway publishing.
Michael S. Horton
Michael S. Horton (PhD Oxford University) is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California, where he has taught since 1998. Additionally, he is the founder and editor-in-chief of Sola Media and the editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine. Dr. Horton is the author/editor of more than twenty-five books, including Justification (Zondervan), a two-volume work in the New Studies in Dogmatics series, Calvin on the Christian Life, The Christian Faith, and Introducing Covenant Theology.
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