Scripture and Authority

The Tractarians of the Oxford Movement undertook the project of establishing the catholicity of the Church of England. One area of emphasis was on the relationship between Scripture and Church Tradition. They assert that a tradition informed the canonization of Scripture and that this living tradition has moved down the mountain of God with the Scriptures as two water streams that flow into the body of water collected at the bottom of the mountain. Therefore, the water collected at the bottom cannot be distinguished between Scripture and tradition.
In order to maintain the catholic identity of Anglicanism the Church must stand opposed to the hyper-protestant perspective of subjective experience through an individual rendering of Scripture. In other words, the Bible is to be understood by way of the judgment of the Church and not the individual. The canon of Scripture was pieced together by way of a living tradition, and this tradition has been preserved in Scripture, but cannot be rightly understood if separated from the ongoing life of the Church (what I am calling 'living tradition'). All of this is to say that the 'novel' idea that 'I' can rightly understand all of the truth by reading Scripture is to suggest that the Scriptures can be properly digested abstracted from the divine society of the Church, which has been the institution of Christ for two thousand years, with Apostolic identity at the core.
Understanding the vitality and dynamism of the Church's tradition is to trust the Church's interpretation of Holy Scripture. In fact, the Bible has all things necessary for salvation, but that which is 'necessary' is judged by God's Church which fosters the lives of the saints.