If one has to choose between the sole authority of the Bible and the sole authority of the Church, in Heaven’s name let us have the Church, which is alive, and, because plainly subject to error, is also capable of truth. And above all, let us be profoundly thankful that the Reformation in England was a political and not a religious movement, and consequently tied up the Church in definite statements less than anywhere else.

William Temple (1881-1944), 1905.