By Schubert Ogden
Although it is solely the Jesus attested as the Christ in the earliest traditions who authorizes what they say (solus Christus), it is solely through what they say that we finally have to do with the Jesus Christ who is the source of their and, through them, all other Christian authority (sola scriptura). By its very nature, then, Christian faith is apostolic faith: faith with the apostles in the Jesus to whose being as the Christ they uniquely are the witnesses and who is himself uniquely present in their witness of faith.
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