I wonder whether Protestantism might not be said to have reverted to the
magisterium of the doctors while it abandoned the authority of the bishops
to decide disputes about doctrine. There also is material in Aquinas on
"editing" creeds - not to add doctrines but to express them.
We also are at the edge of that old & complicated question about the place
of Tradition and the question of extra-Scriptural relevations.
Tom Izbicki
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