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English Reformation:

            Political or religious?

            Revival or rebellion?

            Doctrinal or national?

            Ecclesial (being church) or relational (bonds of affection)?

Bishop Stephen Neill—“Show us some truth in the Bible that we are not teaching, and we will teach it; show us something we are teaching that is denied in the Bible, and we will stop teaching it.”

99^th Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher—“The Anglican Church has no peculiar thought, practice, creed, or confession of its own.  It has only the Catholic Faith of the ancient Catholic Church, as preserved in the Catholic Creeds and the Catholic Scriptures, and maintained in the Catholic and apostolic constitution of Christ’s Church from the beginning.  We hold that Faith entire, without addition or diminution.”

Rick Warren, ACNs “Hope and Future Conference,”  2005—“A New Anglican Reformation”

“Anglican Communion”

          Archbishop of Canterbury (Augustine or Thomas Cranmer , papal or royal?)

First Lambeth Conference, 1868 (non-synodical)

Anglican Consultative Council, 1971

The Primates Meeting, Lambeth 1978 (strengthened 1988 and 1998—“enhanced responsibility in offering guidance on doctrinal, moral and pastoral matters", Windsor Report)

1 Corinthians

2:10b-16—The Spirit guides the understanding of the Church so that “we have the mind of Christ.” (“spiritual” contrasted with “natural”)

3:1-5—The source of division, “jealousy and strife” is spiritual immaturity.

3:5-9—Ministers of the Church to be humble servants.

3:10-17—Christ the foundation on which the Church is built: “no other foundation can any one lay.”  “you are God’s temple and… God’s Spirit dwells in you.”

3:18-22—“Let no one boast of men…you are Christ’s.”

4:1-5—“servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.”  The Lord will judge.

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION:

1.      What in today’s lecture most caught your attention?

2.      What understanding from the scripture readings is helping you to better understand the faith of the Church?