Another Reformed Christian Crossed the Tiber

Here is a post from a reformed Protestant who reverted to the Catholic faith about two years ago. Casey Chalk left Catholicism for evangelicalism when he was 8 years old. He had attended a reformed seminary but started to question sola scriptura and the reformed understanding of the formation of the canon, which is often the path to the Catholic Church.
In this post he discusses Chris Castaldo's book Holy Ground, which I have reviewed here.


"I came to realize that no Christian can possibly approach Scripture without a host of predetermined data points that inform his or her interpretation. There can be no “Scripture alone,” because our interpretive lens will be inherently defined by the sermons we’ve heard, books we’ve read, or theological concepts we’ve been taught. The Reformed Christian, in essence, believes in Scripture plus whatever interpretations he inherits from Calvin plus Warfield plus Bavinck plus whomever has informed his interpretive paradigm. The same can be said for the Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, and even Catholic. However, only the Catholic’s interpretive paradigm allows him to reply to such a charge by saying “yes, exactly, that IS how I interpret Scripture; how could I do any other?”