Bibliography: On Sola Scriptura – A Response to Cameron Bertuzzi
- The Other Paul
- Jun 1
- 3 min read

NOTE: Citations appear in order of their appearance or allusion in the video. Citations of each text/video will not be repeated.
Video I am responding to: I Spent a Year Researching Sola Scriptura—Here's 9 Reasons Why It's False: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHzFP9sSAI0
Michael Horton's (terrible) defence of Sola Scriptura's presence in the ancient fathers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gKPPcq0giw
Dr. Gavin Ortlund's videos on Augustine and Sola Scriptura (chronological order):
Did Augustine Affirm Sola Scriptura? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6ZAa0gNMvE
Response to Critics: Augustine on Scripture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbTPHSv5Rtc
Response to Lofton and Little on Augustine and Scripture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZZkYMHeJEw
Augustine of Hippo, On Baptism – Against the Donatists, 2.3 ( A.D. 400(?)).
My debate on Irenaeus' paradigm of theological authority: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w05D00S9yJ8
Holy Scripture: The Ground and Pillar of Our Faith (3 vols.), David T. King & William Webster (A.D. 2001).
William Whitaker, A Disputation on Holy Scripture (A.D. 1588).
Original (Latin): https://books.google.com.au/books?id=rz2lDzaLdAEC
English (Rev. William Fitzgerald translation): https://www.monergism.com/disputation-holy-scripture-ebook
New Prolego Press edition:
Thomas Cranmer, A Confutation of Unwritten Verities (A.D. 1556). https://archive.org/details/theworksofthomas02cramuoft/page/n25/mode/2up
Cannot find original Latin.
Example of a Roman apologist pushing against the '30/40,000 denominations' argument: 4 Things Catholics Need to STOP Saying to Protestants, Trent Horn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGdCtVo2p-Q
Center for the Study of Global Christianity – Quick Facts page: https://www.gordonconwell.edu/center-for-global-christianity/research/quick-facts/
The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions, trans. by Clyde Pharr (A.D. 1952). https://archive.org/details/theodosiancodeno0000unse/mode/2up
CORRECTION (13:54): Citation is of the history of Socrates Scholasticus, not Sozomen; book 1 ch. 8.
Constantine's letter relocating the council from Ancyra to Nicaea (A.D. 324/325). Greek & English: https://www.fourthcentury.com/urkunde-20/
Letter of the Council of Nicaea to the Egyptian Church (A.D. 325). Greek & English: https://www.fourthcentury.com/urkunde-23/
Acts of the Council of Mar Dadisho (A.D. 424):
My talk on Right Response Ministries: How Sacralism Saved the Church. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12eKv7JcqMQ
Videos by Sean Luke on Sola Apostolica (chronological order):
The Unbreakable Word of God: A Protestant Case for the Infallibility of Scripture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPsioJoE1Oc
Sola Apostolica - A Response to Suan Sonna and Ben Bollinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVeTM9SB5A
Sola Apostolica - A Proposal for an Ecumenical Principle of Unity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIX89osTYR
A Better Way to Defend Sola Scriptura (Gospel Simplicity) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2zq5agacpU
The letter of Aristeas (ca. 3rd cen. B.C.):
Original (Greek): https://www.attalus.org/greek/aristeas1.html
English: https://www.ccel.org/c/charles/otpseudepig/aristeas.htm
Eusebius of Caesarea, Preparation for the Gospel, 13.12 (ca. A.D. 313):
Original (Greek): https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2018.tlg001.1st1K-grc1:13.12
English: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/pearse/morefathers/files/eusebius_pe_13_book13.htm
NOTE: English also found standalone w/ dedicated commentary in Charlesworth, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (vol. 2), p.839.
Codex Vaticanus: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1209
Codex Sinaiticus: https://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx
1611 KJV manuscript: https://archive.org/details/1611TheAuthorizedKingJamesBible/page/n37/mode/2up
1534 Luther Bible table of contents: https://x.com/drjohnmeade/status/1719353122278015241
The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion (as printed in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer): http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1662/articles.pdf
Richard Field, Of the Church (A.D. 1606–1610), 3.1. https://archive.org/details/ofchurchfivebook02fiel/page/104/mode/2up
Martin Chemnitz, Examination of the Council of Trent (vol. 1), 2.2 (A.D. 1565–1573). https://archive.org/details/examinationofcou0000chem/page/4/mode/2up
Edward Stillingfleet, A Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion (vol. 1), 6.18 (A.D. 1664). https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8jhAAAAAcAAJ
Benjamin P. Laird, Creating the Canon: Composition, Controversy, and the Authority of the New Testament (A.D. 2023). https://www.ivpress.com/creating-the-canon
Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, 6.14 (A.D. 312–324):
Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal Letter 39 (A.D. 367). Greek & English: https://www.bible-researcher.com/athanasius.html
Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, 2.8 (A.D. 397–426):
Jerome Biblical Commentary (3rd edition) (A.D. 2022). https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/jerome-biblical-commentary-for-the-twentyfirst-century-9781474248853/
Leo XIII, Providentissimus Deus (A.D. 1893):
My Ecclesialism streams:
Simon Patrick, A Discourse About Tradition (A.D. 1685). https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WR15R-aCOXIC
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