~/canon-circleThe problem all three must survive. Sola scriptura requires a list, and the list is not in the list: no biblical book names the canon. That list was fixed by the church over roughly three centuries. If the church's judgment was reliable enough to settle the table of contents, on what grounds is it unreliable elsewhere? And if it was not reliable, what grounds confidence in the table of contents?
~/magisteriumA living teaching office — bishops in communion with Rome — authoritatively interprets scripture and tradition and can define doctrine irreformably. The argument is not that the church outranks scripture but that a text without a guarantor cannot adjudicate its own disputed readings, and the historical record of fragmentation is offered as the evidence.
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