“…because Holy Scripture is the authoritative canon, holy reason finds there its norm. To say that Holy Scripture is the authoritative canon is to say that this determinate collection of writings, received and read as a unified God-given prophetic and apostolic testimony, legitimately claims the acknowledgement, assent and obedience of the Church and its theology. The authority of Scripture for holy reason is Scripture’s Spirit-bestowed capacity to quicken theology to truthful thought and speech. Truthful thought and speech follow the given order of reality. … the authority of Scripture is a matter for the Churh’s acknowledgement, not its ascription. Authority cannot be conferred on Scripture by the Church or by its theology, but only greeted as that which legitimately commands the activity of reason. As such, Scripture’s authority is not at all abstract or merely formal; it is a servant of the living voice of God as truth that enables the Church to live from and in the truth.

John Webster, Holiness, 19ff.