#732 - Refuting Protestantism's "Clarity" Doctrine of Scripture

The Counsel of Trent

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this episode, Trent sits down with Catholic author Casey Chalk to discuss his book The Obscurity of Scripture and why Protestant views of sola scriptura are untenable given the need to interpret scripture.

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0:00.0	The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.
0:08.6	That's what Protestants have told me for quite some time.
0:12.2	It's this idea that if Scripture is a soul and falibal rule of faith, certainly any person
0:17.5	learned and unlearned can read it and get the essentials of the Christian faith from
0:22.4	it.
0:23.4	Or can they, our guest today here on the Council of Trent podcast, has written an excellent
0:28.5	book challenging that Protestant doctrine.
0:31.7	His book is called, and he'll let up your people to see, look at that, it came into focus
0:36.9	right as I was pointing to, obscurity.
0:39.3	The book is called the obscurity of Scripture, disputing solar scriptura and the Protestant
0:45.2	notion of biblical perspiquity by Casey Chalk.
0:50.2	Casey, welcome to the Council of Trent podcast.
0:52.8	Thank you so much for having me on Trent.
0:55.2	It's a pleasure to be with you.
0:57.0	It's a pleasure to have you.
0:59.5	I read this book and I just want to say I was thoroughly impressed by it.
1:05.8	There have been people who have sent me books to endorse, and there have been a few books
1:12.1	that I have chosen to not endorse because they either had minimal or no footnotes, and
1:18.0	the book was on an academic subject.
1:20.6	And I'm not a big fan of books that don't do their homework, but you definitely did your
1:25.2	homework in this book.
1:27.3	This study of the Protestant doctrine of the perspiquity of Scripture, covering church
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