I’ve read James White reference that book in Scripture Alone. One reason I haven’t picked it up is that I’ve read William Webster’s The Church of Rome at the Bar of History and found it quite lacking. I do reference that book in my manuscript (but the subject is Webster’s admission that baptismal regeneration was universally taught in the early Church and thus the Church “went off the rails” from the very beginning).

I’ll have to consider your idea at greater length. Part of me feels like delving deeply into something like sola Scriptura would make the book less accessible and too focused on specific details of one topic (albeit a core one of Protestantism). Nonetheless, your recommendation that this would be valuable carries weight.

One last note: I made a blog post about this recently, but James White in the book I have from him also calls the Scriptures the bulwark of the Faith, and the name of that book is the same “Holy Scripture: The Ground and Pillar of Our Faith.” I don’t understand why they use those words when the only thing in the Scriptures referred to as the “Ground and Pillar” is not the Scriptures but the Church.

Thanks again!

This book sounds interesting! As someone who got his first introduction to the Roman Catholic vs. Protestant debate by reading heavily Protestant church history books on Martin Luther and reading a -lot- of James White, I can offer one piece of advice which would probably make the book better for all readers:

I would really suggest addressing sola scriptura, strongly, and reading “Holy Scripture: The Ground and Pillar of Our Faith” before doing so. (You can look it up on Amazon; it comes in three volumes. Enough penitential reading for years of Lents! ) That’s considered by more than one people to be the best modern work on sola scriptura. It’s certainly one of the most comprehensive, and if you addressed some of the arguments presented by the authors, as well as by Reformed apologists like James White and James Swan, it would lend a lot of strength to your book.

Pax Christi,

Spencer