Whitaker's Disputation Back in Print
Whitaker's A Disputation on Holy Scripture Against the Papists, Especially Bellarmine and Stapleton is back in print once again by Soli Deo Gloria. I cannot recommend this book too highly. It is a must read on the subject of sola Scriptura. I have two copies of the old Parker Society edition (1849), and a copy when it was first republished by Soli Deo Gloria. Whitaker's treatment is paralleled only by the Evangelical Anglican, William Goode's The Divine Rule of Faith and Practice first published in 1842 in two volumes, and then expanded and republished in 1853 in three volumes, which was a response to the Tractarian Movement (also called the Oxford Movement) led by Newman, Keble, and Pusey.
If you don't have Whitaker, your understanding of this subject, historically, may be somewhat impoverished. It was stated by Donald Lupton in his History of the Modern Protestant Divines published in 1637 and by Anthony Wood in his Athenae Oxonienses that the Jesuit controversialist, Bellarmine, hung a portrait of Whitaker in his study. When asked why he did so Bellarmine replied, "Quod quamvis hereticus erat et adversarius, erat tamen doctus adversarius" (that though he was a heretic and his adversary, yet he was a learned adversary). Tolle lege!
DTK
Whitaker's A Disputation on Holy Scripture Against the Papists, Especially Bellarmine and Stapleton is back in print once again by Soli Deo Gloria. I cannot recommend this book too highly. It is a must read on the subject of sola Scriptura. I have two copies of the old Parker Society edition (1849), and a copy when it was first republished by Soli Deo Gloria. Whitaker's treatment is paralleled only by the Evangelical Anglican, William Goode's The Divine Rule of Faith and Practice first published in 1842 in two volumes, and then expanded and republished in 1853 in three volumes, which was a response to the Tractarian Movement (also called the Oxford Movement) led by Newman, Keble, and Pusey.
If you don't have Whitaker, your understanding of this subject, historically, may be somewhat impoverished. It was stated by Donald Lupton in his History of the Modern Protestant Divines published in 1637 and by Anthony Wood in his Athenae Oxonienses that the Jesuit controversialist, Bellarmine, hung a portrait of Whitaker in his study. When asked why he did so Bellarmine replied, "Quod quamvis hereticus erat et adversarius, erat tamen doctus adversarius" (that though he was a heretic and his adversary, yet he was a learned adversary). Tolle lege!
DTK