Logos & Muse

ITH GREAT COURTESY, Tur­ret­inFan has responded to a por­tion of my blog arti­cle “White’s Bur­den Redux”  from this past Mon­day.  (My arti­cle can be found here and TurretinFan’s response here.)  He responded only to sec­tion II on Hip­poly­tus, indi­cat­ing at the end of his post that:  “Lord will­ing, we will con­sider another sec­tion of Mr. Alt’s post in an upcom­ing reply.”

Since TurretinFan’s response is ongo­ing, I thought it would be proper to hold off on my own reply until his response was com­plete.  To be sure, I appre­ci­ate the need to take one’s time with an arti­cle that was 6400 words long and cov­ered a range of texts from sev­eral Church Fathers.  Tur­ret­inFan does ask me some direct ques­tions in his response, which will merit a response when the time comes:  For behind them lies a ques­tion­able assump­tion, which is impor­tant to address in any full dis­cus­sion of sola scrip­tura.

In the mean­time, I will be com­plet­ing sec­tions 4 and 5 of the “Men as Trees Walk­ing” series–section 4 being devoted to a period of sharp resis­tance dur­ing my con­ver­sion, and sec­tion 5 to my first Eucharist, both of which I will be look­ing at in rela­tion to the themes I have been devel­op­ing through­out the series.  The series begins here.  Lord will­ing, after this series is com­plete, I will be able to move into a more com­plete nar­ra­tive of my con­ver­sion story over a series of posts.

Also, I have been mean­ing to respond to some arti­cles by John Bugay on his blog, also on the topic of sola scrip­tura.

Lord will­ing, look for all these things in the weeks ahead.