[papertyger]

Without taking a position for/against Sola Scripture, I would ask the alternative would be what? (yes, I know many have offered their views but bear with me here).

Exactly what we see in the Protestant world: sheep straying all over the intellectual/philosophical/theological countryside...where "every man does what is right in his own eyes (Judges 21:25)."

[count-your-change]

The alternative suggested to sola scripture has been the Catholic churches’s reliance on tradition, on the philosophical musings of Church “fathers”.

That certainly has produced nothing but a structure that must inevitably must subjugate Scripture to tradition. Example?