ABSTRACT
Henry Liddon, who went on to become one of the greatest preachers of his age, is here enunciating a principle which the Church in virtually all its historical forms has upheld and continues to uphold. The principle is, from its very beginnings the Church has endeavoured to maintain a tradition of interpreting Scripture while at the same time subjecting such an interpretative tradition to control by a principle which is itself derived from this Scripture. The vocation of the theological educator might be to question such an understanding of authority: where the divine voice itself is the interpreter, the magisterium itself is not immune from criticism. This chapter addresses some dangers in some recent understandings of theological education which are based upon a theory of ethical education. It explains briefly at some recent understandings of theological education beginning with the work of Edward Farley, who through a series of writings beginning with Theologia dominated the discussion, at least in America.
