~/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.
~/sola-scripturaScripture is the only infallible rule of faith — norma normans non normata, the norm that norms and is not itself normed. Tradition, creeds, and councils may carry real weight and still be correctable by the text. Note that most magisterial Reformers held something narrower than the solo-scriptura caricature later attached to the phrase.
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