Excerpt from Authority: Ecclesiastical and Biblical There is an attempt made in this volume to do propor tionate j ustice to all three of the factors which have been named, and to show that each is vital, along with super natural grace and experience, to success in attaining a true knowledge of God and of spiritual verities. In brief, the writer sympathizes with the emphasis in each case, whether it is placed upon ecclesiastical authority, or upon biblical authority, or upon reason. He believes, however, that the three tendencies need to be taken up into a larger and richer conception of the process of spiritual knowl edge and of the bases of certitude. A thxeefold cord is stronger than any one of its strands, and its strength lies in the fact that the several strands are mined into one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.