A Table of Contents for 'A Disputation on Holy Scripture' by Prolego Press
- The Other Paul
- Jun 6
- 1 min read
The new two-volume edition of William Whitaker's A Disputation of Holy Scripture by Prolego Press has just arrived at my door. They are as beautiful as I expected, with clean, easy to read formatting (though with some errors, but that'll be for a future review).
However, one feature did disappoint me; the Table of Contents is critically lacking, only listing the page numbers of the start of each of the six questions dealt with in the book. Not only are the many chapters under these questions not listed, but even the topics/titles of the questions themselves not listed, and so the reader won't know how to navigate the text (except upon reading Q.1 ch.1, wherein the six major questions are listed). To that end, I spent a bit of my evening manually going through each chapter heading in the book, typing them up exactly as printed, and marking the page number, resulting in a PDF with a complete table of contents. I do not know how to justify the page numbers along the right edge of the document so it's not as clean as it could be, but it does the job.
Those who have picked up this otherwise excellent edition of Whitaker's legendary work will find this supplement most useful:
You mentioned in your video on Cameron Bertuzzi that you regard the 'interior witness of the Holy Spirit' as a bad argument in disputes on the canon, even though it is mentioned by several reformers. Do you reject William Whitaker's contention in "A Disputation on Holy Scripture" that the Christian believes that we accept the sacred books as canonical ultimately because of the interior witness of the Holy Spirit, and that this separates him from the Papalist who believes that the ultimate reason why we accept the books as canonical is the judgement of the Church?