Steel yourselves for Lambeth’s real message
“Evangelical Anglicans are going to have to get used to two-and-a-half weeks of being accused, lied about and generally having their views abused, during the Lambeth Conference. I’m not saying that to invite pity or suggest that evangelicals are persecuted and so on, but that the climate in the church and media makes it inevitable. …”
– Andrew Carey writes at Stand Firm.
(Photo of Canterbury Cathedral: Matthew Davies / Episcopal News Service.)
Phillip Jensen on Roman Catholicism
“[I]f Martin Luther came into Sydney and saw Roman Catholicism and its Stations of the Cross, he’d say, “Ah, they’ve cleaned up their act.” So there are certain aspects of Catholicism in the Protestant world which are much more acceptable to where Luther would have been.
But no. Things are actually worse than in Luther’s day because since Luther’s day the Roman Catholic Church not only calcified itself explicitly against justification by faith alone, or the authority of the scriptures alone, or salvation by grace alone, et cetera; not only calcified itself against that back at the Council of Trent but since then you’ve had the Vatican I Council in 1870, which clarified the idea that the Pope can speak infallibly. …”
– Dean Phillip Jensen in an edited transcript from The Chat Room – published by The Sydney Morning Herald.
To see the Dean’s comments in context (highly recommended!), watch the full video via SydneyAnglicans.net here. The programme runs for 28 minutes.
A higher quality (but large – at 160MB) mp4 video file is available from this direct link.
No other Name – The uniqueness of Christ for Salvation
David Phillips, General Secretary of Church Society, wrote this before the recent Church of England General Synod –
A survey conducted by Christian Research six years ago asked Clergy whether they believed without question that Jesus is the only way of salvation. Only 51% of the Clergy questioned could agree. …
there is good reason to think that less than a half of the Bishops believe that Christ is the only way of salvation.
The issue of the uniqueness of Christ for salvation has been bubbling up for some time and has shown every sign of erupting in the last few months. Many are now trying furiously to prevent any such eruption for fear of the consequences. Read more
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…