Sunday, August 16, 2020

George Agius, "Tradition and the Church": Now Available on Archive.org

 

In Not By Scripture Alone: A Latter-day Saint Refutation of Sola Scriptura, one of the books against Sola Scriptura I recommended at the end was that of George Agius, Tradition and the Church. While it has been reprinted by TAN Books (which I own), it is still a hard-to-find volume. Fortunately, it has now been put on Archive.org:

 

Tradition and the Church

 

While Agius was often a little too over-enthusiastic to interpret early Christian writings as if they were supportive of later Catholic dogma, it is a useful book as it shows (1) early Christians did not hold to the formal sufficiency of the Bible and (2) it is a good work for understanding how Catholics approach “Tradition.”