Foundation of Tradition

Through Holy Scripture, the church’s foundational authority, the Lord who possesses all authority authorizes the church to build on that foundation... The reason for laying a foundation is in order to build: Scripture is a means to the end of church tradition (Herman Bavinck).

 

Scott Swain, Reformed Catholicity: The Promise of Retrieval for Theology and Biblical Interpretation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2015), 49