More wisdom from Dr. Scott Hahn

The Magisterium, the Tradition, and the Bible are so closely connected as to be inseparable. You can also see how the Protestants depend upon Catholic councils, Catholic bishops, and CatholicTraditions for the 27 books they call the New Testament. What book of the New Testament tells us that this is the Gospel handbook? That if you’re going to preach in a town for a week, or a month, or however long, that these are the points that you have to cover in the kerygmatic catechism of the first century? Not one. You read Paul’s Letter to the Romans, it isn’t a catechism, it’s a letter that he wrote to the Romans telling them why he couldn’t make it, how sorry he was, and his plans to come to them. In the meantime, he helped them resolve a problem. Paul wrote a letter to help them resolve a particular problem. Is that the catechism? The basic theology 101 course of the first generation course? No. If Romans isn’t, then all the other letters qualify even less. None of them are summaries of the Gospel. How about the Gospels themselves? Do the Gospels tell us anything about the moral practices of the early Church? No. They weren’t intended to. They just tell us about the life of Jesus.

—DR. SCOTT HAHN from The Bible Alone