It is now held by some Moravians that their Church offers a via media between Anglicanism and Dissent.
His aim, however, had been to find a via media between the old and new; his temper was essentially conservative, his imagination held captive by the splendid traditions of the medieval church, and he had no sympathy with the revolutionary attitude of the Reformers.
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.
It is a philosophy of substantial things, standing as a via media between a philosophy of the supernatural and a philosophy of mind.
At this period Duke Charles and his Protestant friends were clearly outnumbered by the promoters of the via media.
