vol. 39, Issue #3

Online Journal Article: "Claritas Scripturae" The Role Of Perspicuity In Protestant Hermeneutics - James Patrick Callahan* Jets 39/3 (September 1996) 353–372

https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/39/39-3/39-3-pp353-372_JETS.pdf

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Complete article may be found here:
https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/39/39-3/39-3-pp353-372_JETS.pdf

"CLARITAS SCRIPTURAE"
THE ROLE OF PERSPICUITY
IN PROTESTANT HERMENEUTICS
JAMES PATRICK CALLAHAN*
JETS 39/3 (September 1996) 353–372

Excerpt:

The affirmation "claritas Scripturae" has taken various and distinct shapes
in the history of Protestant hermeneutics, each corresponding to the religious
and intellectual climates encountered. Scripture’s clarity can be described
as a protean principle in Protestant hermeneutics. It is never finally
severed from the larger issues of Scriptural authority, efficacy and
sufficiency. It is meaningless alone but is implied by a multitude of issues
rooted in a Protestant concept of Scripture. This paper proposes to evaluate
the manner in which assertions of Scripture’s perspicuity have been presented i
n Protestant hermeneutics, with the actual appeals to a Protestant
idea of Scripture’s clarity illustrating the complex relationship of
Scriptural and hermeneutical authority. --from the first page of the article