Dr. John C. Peckham (a Seventh
Day Adventist), author of a number of good books on theodicy and the love
of God (e.g., Theodicy of Love and The Love of God: A Canonical Model) and
author of a brave attempt to defend Sola Scriptura (Canonical Theology: The Biblical Canon, Sola Scriptura, and
Theological Method [Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2016]), appeared on the
Capturing Christianity youtube channel to discuss and defend Sola Scriptura:
Peckham provides the following summary of his understanding of what Sola
Scriptura is:
(1) Scripture [for Peckham et al., "scripture" is exhausted by
the 66 books of the Protestant canon] is the uniquely infallible source of
divine revelation that is available to contemporary humans collectively.
(2) Scripture alone provides a sufficient and fully trustworthy basis of
theology
(3) Scripture is the uniquely authoritative and final form of
theological interpretation that norms all others.
One has to give some credit to Peckham for providing one of the better
attempts to defend this doctrine, both in his book as well as in this video. To
see why Sola Scriptura is, in light of exegesis, a failure, see:
