Three-Legged Stool of Anglicanism - Robert S. Munday
Three-Legged Stool of Anglicanism
A Stool or a Tower-you decide.
The Very Rev. Canon Robert S. Munday, Ph.D.
The classic Anglican theologian to whom later Anglicans have looked in speaking of sources of authority in the Church is Richard Hooker. Hooker listed the sources of authority as Scripture, Tradition, and Reason.
Later writers have, by way of analogy, described these three sources as a "three-legged stool." This analogy has led some people to speculate (sometimes tongue-in-cheek) on the relative length of the three legs, and in so doing, to treat the sources as independent entities of differing value, or even to pit them against each other. Thus, while I agree absolutely with Hooker on the three sources, I find the later analogy to be flawed and open to misinterpretation. (The reference to Hooker's sources as the "three-legged stool" is so ubiquitous in Anglican circles that even the analogy is often mistakenly attributed to Hooker himself.)
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A Stool or a Tower-you decide.
The Very Rev. Canon Robert S. Munday, Ph.D.
The classic Anglican theologian to whom later Anglicans have looked in speaking of sources of authority in the Church is Richard Hooker. Hooker listed the sources of authority as Scripture, Tradition, and Reason.
Later writers have, by way of analogy, described these three sources as a "three-legged stool." This analogy has led some people to speculate (sometimes tongue-in-cheek) on the relative length of the three legs, and in so doing, to treat the sources as independent entities of differing value, or even to pit them against each other. Thus, while I agree absolutely with Hooker on the three sources, I find the later analogy to be flawed and open to misinterpretation. (The reference to Hooker's sources as the "three-legged stool" is so ubiquitous in Anglican circles that even the analogy is often mistakenly attributed to Hooker himself.)
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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