By Robin G. Jordan
On Tuesday I posted an article on why denying justification is a serious error. Historically two
movements within the Anglican Church have denied justification. The first
movement is the Anglo-Catholic movement; the second movement is the liberal
movement. Both movements do not fully accept the authority of the Bible, much
less that of the historic Anglican formularies. The latter include two Books of
Homilies as well as the Thirty-Nine Articles of 1571, The Book of Common Prayer
of 1662, and its Ordinal.
The Anglo-Catholic movement is strongly represented in the
Anglican Church in North America and the other North American Continuing Anglican jurisdictions;
the liberal movement in the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church
in the USA. North America has no ecclesiastical entity that identifies itself
as Anglican, which fully accepts the authority of the Bible and the Anglican
formularies, and which upholds the doctrine of justification by grace through
faith in Jesus Christ. Individual clergy
and congregations in all of the aforementioned self-identified Anglican
Churches may do so but not these bodies as a whole.
If the premise of the article is correct—and conservative
Protestants, evangelical Anglicans, and Anglican evangelicals would maintain
that it is, all these Anglican Churches are in serious error. It is a troubling
thought.
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