Confessional Stability

Scripture is the supreme source of revealed teaching. The rule of faith is only a channel through which that revealed teaching flows. However, this does not mean that the rule of faith is open to endless revision, as many modern understandings of sola Scriptura—and of semper reformanda—have supposed.

 

Scott Swain, Reformed Catholicity: The Promise of Retrieval for Theology and Biblical Interpretation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2015), 113