critical synthesis,3 A. N. S. Lane has classified the views on this subject to be found in western Christian history4 until recently as four, which he calls the coincidence view, the supplementary view, the ancillary view and the unfolding view. He also correctly observes that these views of the relation of Scripture and tradition cannot be adequately understood without reference to a third factor: the contemporary teaching of the church. For our purposes it will be sufficient briefly to summarize