More comments on "catholicity" by a scholar from the Roman communion

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George Tavard: Whichever formula we prefer, we are led by patristic theology to consider that there is a sense in which “Scripture alone” is an authentic expression of Catholic Christianity, inasmuch as, that is, the Scripture is, in the Church, the apostolic tradition and vice versa. George H. Tavard, Holy Writ or Holy Church: The Crisis of the Protestant Reformation (London: Burns & Oates, 1959), p. 11.

George Tavard: The greatest centuries of the Middle Ages—twelfth and thirteenth—were thus faithful to the patristic conception of “Scripture alone.” George H. Tavard, Holy Writ or Holy Church: The Crisis of the Protestant Reformation (London: Burns & Oates, 1959), p. 20.

 

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George Tavard was, in many ways, a liberal Roman Catholic scholar. He is said to have favored women's ordination.

 

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George Tavard was, in many ways, a liberal Roman Catholic scholar. He is said to have favored women's ordination.

Yes, and this book of his was granted the affirmations "Nihil Obstat" (nothing stands in the way) and the "Imprimatur" (let it be printed) of a bishop.