Saturday, November 03, 2012

Of course


AUCKLAND,NZ:TEC Leader Throws Roadblock in Way of Scripture's Supreme Authority

AUCKLAND, NZ: TEC Leader Throws Road block in Way of Scripture's Supreme Authority
"It doesn't make my interpretation right and your interpretation wrong; we can both be enriched by each other's interpretations," says Josephine Hicks

By David W. Virtue in Auckland
www.virtueonline.org
November 3, 2012

What Scripture doth plainly deliver, to that the first place both of credit and obedience are due; the next whereunto, is what any man can necessarily conclude by force of Reason; after this, the voice of the church succeedeth (Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity 5,8,2 - Richard Hooker).

All of this can be summed up in a word which, though often misunderstood, denotes an elusive sixth element which might hold the key: authority. The Anglican Communion does not have a Pope, nor any system which corresponds to the authority structure and canonical organisation of the Roman Catholic Church. The Anglican Communion has always declared that its supreme authority is scripture. (The Windsor Report)

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