The Church and the Bible (Part 1)

Posted on August 23, 2018 
Filed under Theology

“On this issue of the relation of the Church to the Bible, the declared position of the Church of England is explicit and unmistakable. The canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are avowedly acknowledged as supreme and sufficient in authority.

They provide the Church as well as every individual Christian with a decisive God-given rule of faith and conduct. Everything which is either believed or done, with the accompanying claim that it possesses proper Christian sanction and authority, must be capable of being tested and vindicated by this standard. …”

– Alan Stibbs’ words in The Australian Church Record of 1960 are every bit as relevant now as they were then.