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William Whitaker's Disputation on Holy Scripture (1588) is considered by many Protestants to be the greatest book-length defense of Sola Scriptura ever written. So Kenny Burchard and Dave Armstrong decided to take it on directly. In this first episode of a new series, Dave — who devoted 173 pages to refuting Whitaker in his book Pillars of Sola Scriptura — walks through Whitaker's opening argument: that Catholics make Scripture inferior to the Church. The problem? The Council of Trent and Vatican I explicitly contradict that claim. And Whitaker knew it — he cites four Catholic apologists who denied it and ignores them anyway.
DOWNLOAD the free PDF for this episode here: https://kennyburchard.com/go/whitaker-sola-scriptura
BOOK REPLIED TO
William Whitaker, Disputation on Holy Scripture: Against the Papists, Especially Bellarmine and Stapleton, 1588; edition published in 1849 by the University Press of Cambridge - https://archive.org/details/disputationonhol00whituoft/mode/2up
DAVE ARMSTRONG BOOKS: "CATHOLIC APOLOGETICS EBOOK SUPERSTORE" (50+ TITLES : EpUB + PDF FOR $9.99 / Save More with "Bundle" Discount Deals) - https://davearmstrongbooks.store
DAVE’S RELATED BOOKS
Pillars of Sola Scriptura: Replies to Whitaker, Goode, & Biblical “Proofs” for “Bible Alone” (Lulu Press: July 2012, 310 pages) - https://davearmstrongbooks.store/product/pillars-of-sola-scriptura/
100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura (Catholic Answers Press: May 2012 / second revised edition: Bridge Builders press: Aug. 2025, 127 pages) - https://davearmstrongbooks.store/product/100-biblical-arguments-against-sola-scriptura/
The [Catholic] Church and Ecclesiology - https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2006/11/church-index-page.html
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