The Criterion of Truth in Solving Doctrinal Issues and their Dependence on the Teaching of Tradition

Authors

  • Priest Dmitry Artemkin Moscow Theological Academy

Keywords:

Sources of the Revelation, Holy Tradition, Magisterium ecclesiasticum, Consensus patrum

Abstract

The article compares the Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant ideas about the central criteria of doctrinal truth, and also clarifies how the difference between these criteria depends on the understanding of the nature of the Holy Tradition. As a result of the comparison, the question of actual criteria in Orthodoxy is problematized.

Author Biography

Priest Dmitry Artemkin, Moscow Theological Academy

Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Staroye Vagankovo (Moscow);
Moscow theological academy, Department of theology (Sergiev Posad), lecturer

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Published

2024-01-24

Issue

No. 3(3) (2019)

Section

Researches