Sin, Creed, Gospel - Phillip Anderas
Sin, Creed, Gospel
If we Anglicans are arguing about the Gospel of the forgiveness of sins, then we are arguing about an issue that is Creedal to the core
Fr Phillip Anderas
http://covenant-communion.net/index.php/site/articles/sin_creed_confession/
March 12, 2011
In our ongoing Anglican disagreement, one often encounters the irenic suggestion that, even if this party and that disagree about what Scripture has to say about sexual ethics, both at least agree in their common confession of the catholic Creeds. In a recent Living Church article, for example, Bishop Ian Douglas and the Revd Jo Bailey Wells testify that they do not know any colleagues in the Episcopal Church who would not wholeheartedly affirm the Creeds. I myself do not know Bishop Douglas, but I count Dr Wells as a friend and have no reason to doubt her testimony. Let us take her at her word: her Episcopal colleagues, clerical and otherwise, affirm the Creeds wholeheartedly.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
If we Anglicans are arguing about the Gospel of the forgiveness of sins, then we are arguing about an issue that is Creedal to the core
Fr Phillip Anderas
http://covenant-communion.net/index.php/site/articles/sin_creed_confession/
March 12, 2011
In our ongoing Anglican disagreement, one often encounters the irenic suggestion that, even if this party and that disagree about what Scripture has to say about sexual ethics, both at least agree in their common confession of the catholic Creeds. In a recent Living Church article, for example, Bishop Ian Douglas and the Revd Jo Bailey Wells testify that they do not know any colleagues in the Episcopal Church who would not wholeheartedly affirm the Creeds. I myself do not know Bishop Douglas, but I count Dr Wells as a friend and have no reason to doubt her testimony. Let us take her at her word: her Episcopal colleagues, clerical and otherwise, affirm the Creeds wholeheartedly.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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