James White, director of Alpha & Omega Ministries (website: http://www.AOMIN ORG). James is a noted author, conference speaker, debater (he's done more recorded debates than anyone we know), theologian & apologist. Some of his books are: "Sola Scriptura and the Early Church in Sola Scriptura!", "The Roman Catholic Controversy," "Is the Mormon My Brother?", "The Forgotten Trinity," "Mary--Another Redeemer?", "What's With the Dudes at the Door?", "Jesus Shall Reign in Onward, Christian Soldiers," "The Potter's Freedom," "The God Who Justifies," "The Same Sex Controversy," "Dangerous Airwaves," "Debating Calvinism vs. Dave Hunt," "Scripture Alone," "Pulpit Crimes," "Islam and Christianity: A Matter of Denial in Answering Islam: Countering Terror with Truth," "The Fatal Flaw," "Answers to Catholic Claims," "Letters to a Mormon Elder," "Justification by Faith," "God's Sovereign Grace," "Drawn by the Father," "The King James Only Controversy," & others.
Sola scriptura (Latin "by Scripture alone") is one of five important slogans of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. It meant that Scripture is the Church's only infallible rule for deciding issues of faith and practices that involve doctrines. The intention of the Reformation was to correct the Roman Catholic Church by appeal to the uniqueness of the Bible's authority, and to reject Romanist tradition as a source of original authority alongside the Bible or in addition to the Bible. This idea of the singular authority of Scripture is the motivation behind much of the Protestant effort to translate the Bible into the native vernacular. |
