[Magdalen] A useful approach to the Bible

[Ann Markle]

Once again, this author says it's "hard to find what's most important
[scripture, tradition, or reason]," when Hooker was abundantly clear that
scripture comes first and foremost, interpreted through the traditions of
the church and human, scholarly, (not fly-by-night opinion, making
scripture say what we want it to say or dismissing it completely) reason.
I'm not sure how this attitude got perpetuated -- perhaps it's the image of
the "3-legged stool," which must have legs of the same length -- but this
is incorrect.  When the writer gets his premises wrong, it's hard for me to
credit anything about the article.

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 8:34 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Found an article that resonated with me, and thought it deserved a bit
> wider distribution. I apologize for the tinyurl, but the actual url for the
> site takes up a lot of space. Patheos has thought-provoking articles. But
> the way they link it all together yields huge-inormous URLs.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ne7fdy8
>
>
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>