Gymnobiblism

Gymnobiblism

Gymnobiblism is the opinion that the bare text of the Bible, without commentary, may be safely given to the unlearned as a sufficient guide to religious truth. Gymnobiblism was the guiding principle for Martin Luther's translation of the New Testament into the German vernacular but his proposition was condemned by the Catholic Church at the Council of Trent, which held that the Sacred Scriptures may not be isolated from Sacred Tradition and the teaching authority of the Pope acting in concert with the bishops of the Church.

References

Froude, James Anthony. "Lectures on the Council of Trent" (1893), pp 174, 175.


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