Friday, August 03, 2007

Archbishop of Armagh “goes beyond the Anglican understanding of Revelation”

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/?p=1963

[Anglican Mainstream] 03 Aug 2007--The ‘text’, as the Archbishop calls it, is, according to the Thirty-Nine Articles (which he affirms, and requires everyone he ordains to affirm), God’s word written, holy Scripture which is the measure even of the Creeds we recite, sufficient for salvation and the sole source of those things which we are required to believe or to do.

To summarize it as “attempts to set down what” human witnesses have “known and seen of the action of God in the world” is to demean Scripture below what Anglicans believe it to be.

To say that “the unfolding revelation of God” goes on “beyond the written text” via ‘the Body of Christ’ as a “Spirit filled entity” is to go beyond the Anglican understanding of revelation.

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