Hooker, Richard - W. David Neelands (essay date 1997)
W. David Neelands (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Neelands, W. David. “Hooker on Scripture, Reason, and ‘Tradition.’” In Richard Hooker and the Construction of Christian Community, edited by Arthur Stephen McGrade, pp. 75-94. Tempe, Ariz.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997.
[In the following essay, Neelands examines the commonly held belief that Hooker originated the concept of “the triple authority of Scripture, reason, and tradition.”]
It is a commonplace of Anglican self-understanding to refer to the triple authority of Scripture, reason, and tradition. For at least one hundred years, Richard Hooker has been identified as a principal and original source of this position.1 The purpose of this paper is to suggest first that Anglican theology could benefit from considering Hooker's account of the interrelationship of the first two elements of this triad,2 Scripture and reason, since there has been no...
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