BELLEVILLE, IL: The Authority of the Bible in Anglican Tradition

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BELLEVILLE, IL: The Authority of the Bible in Anglican Tradition

The Rt. Rev. Jack Leo Iker
http://www.fwepiscopal.org/bishop/fifna0611address.html
June 16, 2010

A few years ago, I was invited to be a guest speaker in the Lenten series of a church on the theme "The Four Cornerstones of the Church." Their chosen topics were the Holy Scriptures, the Book of Common Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and Personal Holiness - all very important, worthy subjects for a study series for Lent. As the first speaker, whose topic was the Bible, I began by pointing out that this was much more than simply one of the four cornerstones of the Church - that all three of the others came from the Holy Scriptures and were, in fact, rooted in the teachings of the Bible. The real significance of the Book of Common Prayer is that it is a thoroughly Biblical document. So much of it sounds like the Bible because it is taken from the Bible. The Ten Commandments are, of course, a central part of the Holy Scriptures, and Personal Holiness has as its source and inspiration and vision, the teachings of the Old and New Testaments. The Holy Scriptures are the foundation upon which the other three are built.

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