✦ Scripture · Sufficiency

Express-Statements-Only

Only what is expressly stated in Scripture binds the conscience; rejects deduction by good and necessary consequence — a Socinian and later Anabaptist tendency.

This is a contested or rejected alternative.

The Westminster baseline on Sufficiency is Express-And-Good-Consequence. Personas and schools listed below hold this alternative position instead — either because they argued for it at the Assembly (like the Erastians on polity) or because they represent a receiving tradition that departed from the Standards on this point.

Cruxes on this attribute

The Assembly navigated 1 crux that bear directly on Sufficiency.

Other positions on Sufficiency