‘Scriptura sola': Wyclif and his Critics

Abstract

A notable feature of theological studies in the past decade has been a new and widespread interest in the subject of Tradition. Long considered as a peculiarly Roman Catholic problem to be solved, as it had been created, by the theologians of the ‘post-Reformation papal communion,' Tradition has now suddenly overleaped the walls of Rome to become the concern and serious preoccupation of theologians of widely differing backgrounds and convictions. Indeed, the new interest in Tradition is so closely associated with non-Catholics that it has almost become a commonplace to contrast recent theological developments among Protestants and Catholics by remarking, with some justice if some exaggeration, that now Protestants are going back to Tradition and Catholics going back to Scripture.