The Obscurity of Scripture: Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Biblical Perspicuity
Casey J Chalk
Emmaus Road, $24.95, 320 pages
In his concise new book, The Obscurity of Scripture, Casey J Chalk speaks from the experience of his own journey from the Reformed tradition to the Catholic Church to pick apart Protestant doctrines of perspicuity which complement sola scriptura. When a Christian leader, be he Protestant or Catholic, says “Scripture is clear”, our eyebrows should always rise. After all, what on earth, Chalk asks, is ever self-evident? How can any of us, he wonders, accept the weight of interpreting what is necessary for our own salvation? What good is a Bible in our hands without a living authority to guarantee its meaning?
