Virtus In Medio Stat

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Facebook post:  https://www.facebook.com/laurencegonzagausa/posts/10100133425018386  On a recent thread, I shared with a friend, a potential convert, about the traditional view of Divine Revelation, Catholic Tradition and Scripture, known as partim-partim. Now, modern apologists and theologians would probably distance from partim-partim to a sort of middle way with sola Scriptura, a concept some call "prima scriptura". I've heard it used by Patrick Madrid, and Robert Sungenis shared with me that this idea likely came from the influence of Scott Hahn.  Anyway, the idea of partim-partim is that there are two separate sources (plural) of Divine Revelation, Scripture and Tradition. This was certainly the idea at the time of the prep for the Second Vatican Council as the draft schema for the document on Sacred Scripture, Schema Constitutionis Dogmaticae de Fontibus Revelationis, referred to "sources of revelation". What came out of Vatican II, in Dei Verbum, was a si...