By What Authority?

Prof. Hanko is professor of Church History and New Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. It is not an exaggeration to say that the question of authority was the chief issue between Rome and the Reformers. A. Skevington Wood is right when he says: The tissue at stake was whether the authority (of Scripture) stood on its own feet, or was derived from or needed to be supplemented by that of the Roman Church. This more than anything else was what the Reformation was all about.1 The...