What would be included in Apostolic tradition?
The Apostolic tradition is the oral tradition handed down by the Apostles to the early church Fathers for the proper way to interpret scripture. The main emphasis of this hermeneutic is the ‘rule of Faith’. The rule of Faith, which was later reinstituted by Luther, is that scripture is to be interpreted as a continuity of God’s revelation throughout scripture. It necessarily takes an Christological presuppositional approach to scripture. That is, God’s revelation from the OT to the NT is a coherent testimony of his redemptive work through Jesus Christ.
It can be said then that the modern Dispensationalists no longer adheres to the ‘rule of Faith’ because they fracture the word of God into different administrations breaking up the continuity of scripture. The result of this fractured exegetical process is that the Dispensationalist hyper-literalize portions of scripture outside of the general scope of the ‘rule of Faith’. The Apostolic tradition necessitates against the inductive form of hermeneutic and insists on the more positive deductive form of hermeneutics. As a Church, we agree on the general rules of Faith outlined in the creeds and interpret scripture based on our common beliefs. To reject the creeds is to reject the ‘rule of Faith’ which rejects the Apostolic tradition.