Keith Mathison's Book "The Shape of Sola Scriptura" Examined & Refuted

Presbyterians in early America understood and taught the basics of Reformed theology. Today, by contrast, we have nominal Presbyterian and Reformed men, ministers and professors who pretend to be Reformed, while they teach the heretical doctrines of popery in opposition to Calvinism. We have chumps feigning to be Reformed, while omitting the Calvinist teachings of the universal priesthood of all believers and private individual judgment. Instead of teaching these basics, these imposters redefine terms like Sola Scriptura and Sola Fide to teach the Roman Catholic counterparts. These bleating wolves coin pejorative terms, such as Solo Scriptura and Nuda Scriptura, to mock and attack Biblical Christianity's foundational Axiom: the Bible alone is the authoritative Word of God. You will hear these werewolves screaming against what they call Individualism and Americanism, while swearing that only the ordained ministers of the institutional church have the right to read and interpret the Bible.
Consider Keith A. Mathison. In his 2001 book titled The Shape of Sola Scriptura, Mathison rejects the Calvinist teaching of Sola Scriptura, then redefines it to teach the position of popery: the Bible and tradition are both the authoritative Word of God. Back in 2005, in the April 2005 edition of The Trinity Review, in an essay titled The Justification Controversy: A Guide For The Perplexed, John W. Robbins spotted Mathison's heresy and presented the following warning:
Keith Mathison is a senior editor at Ligonier Ministries. One of his books, The Shape of Sola Scriptura, published by Douglas Wilson's Canon Press, is an attack on the doctrine of sola Scriptura.
(For The King: The Trinity Review, 1999-2008,
Essay 203, page 352, footnote 6)
A rejection of Sola Scriptura necessarily results in a rejection of justification by faith alone (Sola Fide), as well as a rejection of private individual judgment. This is seen in Mathison's works. Not only did he reject Sola Scriptura in his 2001 book The Shape of Sola Scriptura, but he also taught the heresy of justification by faith and works (i.e., Lordship Salvation) in his 1995 book Dispensationalism: Rightly Dividing The People of God.
Mathison's book The Shape of Sola Scriptura was published by Douglas Wilson's Federal Vision publishing arm known as Canon Press.
Mathison admits he was put up to writing his papist attack on Sola Scriptura by Douglas Jones at Canon Press (The Shape Of Sola Scriptura, page 9). Douglas Jones was a contributor ot R.C. Sproul's Tabletalk Magizine—and Mathison was the associate editor of Tabletalk Magizine. Mathison is on the faculty of Reformation Bible College, which was founded by the late R.C. Sproul (1939-2017) back in 2011.
The connection between Douglas Wilson's Federal Vision heresy, including all his satellight ministries, and R.C. Sproul's Lordship Salvation heresy—and Sproul's various ministries is very real: they both teach justification by faith and works, while supporting and promoting each other's ministers and books.
I am not joking when I tell you the following: we have an interconnected network of heresy teaching the principles of Roman Catholicism, while imitating Reformed theology.

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