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Catholicism · Intermediate

Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium

The Roman Catholic Church teaches that Scripture and Tradition form one deposit of God's Word that only its Magisterium may authentically interpret. Scripture teaches that it alone is God-breathed and sufficient, and that every tradition and teacher must be tested by it.

The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.

What you'll learn
1

State Rome's teaching on Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium from Dei Verbum 9–10 and the Catechism

2

Explain what the Council of Trent decreed in its fourth session, including the Apocrypha

3

Answer from Scripture with its sufficiency, Jesus' judgment of human tradition, and the Bereans

4

Respond fairly to the strongest Catholic arguments for Tradition and an infallible interpreter

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