Via-media meaning

It is now held by some Moravians that their Church offers a via media between Anglicanism and Dissent.

Of the seventy-eight resolutions none is in any sense epoch-making, and their spirit is that of the traditional Anglican via media.

He sought to establish a via media between the doctrines of Luther and Zwingli, and vainly hoped to obtain for it Luther's acceptance.

In bringing together the conflicting opinions of the fathers on all the chief points of Christian dogmatics, it may be admitted that Abelard's aim was simply to make these contradictions the starting point of an inquiry which should determine in each case the true position and via media of Christian theology.

It was no time for brilliant initiative or adventurous politics; the need was to avoid Scylla and Charybdis, and a via media had to be found in church and state, at home and abroad.