Imprudence of “Solo Scriptura” — A Message from Hank Hanegraaff

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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“Solo Scriptura” — not sola Scriptura — is a disease of rampant innovation and a failure to respect Holy Tradition. Blaise Pascal speaking in the seventeenth century might just as well have been talking about the twenty-first: “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” As such, Hank Hanegraaff has dedicated this special edition of the Hank Unplugged podcast to discuss the imprudence of “solo Scriptura” with the sincere hope that in place of “solo Scriptura,” incessant innovation, and disregard for the Holy Traditions of the Church, the body of Christ may again return to “what has been believed everywhere, always, and by all” (St. Vincent of Lérins). Protopresbyter George Florovsky explained that Holy Tradition is neither “an independent instance, nor a complementary source of faith. Ecclesiastical understanding could not add anything to Scripture. But it was the only means to ascertain and to disclose the true meaning of Scripture. Tradition was, in fact, the authentic interpretation of Scripture. And in this sense, it was coextensive with Scripture. Tradition was actually Scripture rightly understood.” (Attribution to Florovsky was inadvertently left out of Hank’s quotation in the recording.) For bibliographical data and documentation of sources, see Hank’s From the President column, in the forthcoming (Fall 2022), “The Imprudence of ‘Solo Scriptura,’” in Christian Research Journal, vol. 45, no. 02/03 (2022).

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0:00.0	And welcome to another edition of the Hank Unplugged podcast, a podcast that is committed to bringing in the most interesting,
0:30.5	informative and inspirational people on the planet directly to your earbuds.
0:37.1	Well, today I am taking a little detour because I'm not interviewing someone,
0:44.3	not bringing the most interesting, inspirational, informative person on the planet to you.
0:50.5	I'm doing this Hank Unplugged podcast solo Solo, because I want to talk about something solo.
0:59.4	I want to talk about the imprudence of solo scriptura.
1:05.1	Not sola scriptura, but solo scriptura.
1:10.1	I want to talk about the disease of rampant innovation and a failure to respect holy tradition.
1:20.6	But I want to explain to you as well what I mean by holy tradition.
1:30.3	But let me start by saying this.
1:43.7	Blaise Pascal, who lived a very short life but made a transcendent difference, once said in the 17th century,
1:53.5	something that I think relates dynamically to our state in the 21st century.
2:06.8	He said, truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. The trembling of truth in the secular sphere has well been nothing short of mind-numbing.
2:18.7	The unalterable verity that God created humanity male and female
2:23.7	was now routinely regaled as transphobic.
2:30.7	Sex-specific designations, designations such as woman, female, mother, have been neutered by such linguistic absurdities as, and I'm sure you've heard this phrase, pregnant, lactating, and postpartum individuals.
2:53.5	Even our newest female addition to the Supreme Court seems at a loss to define the word
3:00.1	woman.
3:02.7	And adding to the confused cultural conundrum, the B and LGBTQ, and I should add the plus, and there's other letters I could add as well, but the B and LGBTQ is quite evidently at odds with the T. Bisexual or B implies two options. While on the other hand, transgender,
3:31.2	the T entails a dizzying array of gender identities devoid of common sense and a void of biological reality.
3:41.6	And even that but scratches the sated surface of well, Western woke wisdom and adding insult to injury.
3:53.6	Multitudes of young people have been effectively reduced to generational lab rats,
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