as the main wheel and reason and tradition following behind to keep the reading on track? (I am, myself, allergic to three-legged stools, ever since I tipped off one of these onto a concrete landing while painting a window, with the result of a concussion and a night spent in the hospital!) Nor are such questions merely academic. The model that one uses matters. Some Anglicans use the criterion “what is reasonable” to interrogate those parts of the Scriptures that are uncomfortable to our generation,