himself at the center of the church’s teaching, with transparency, all the time using common sense to “state firmly” those things that are common to the faith of Christians, and particularly to his Reformed and Anglican understanding of that faith. In a time of flux, he has reminded both those of us who are tempted to despair and those who are seduced by revisionism that “the great tradition will most surely survive.”2 In this he is on firm ground, for we have it on the very best authority that not