GAFCON’S FINAL STATEMENT AND THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION A Sympathetic Critique


Συγγραφέας: Daniel Howard-Snyder


Daniel Howard-Snyder: GAFCON’S FINAL STATEMENT AND THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION A Sympathetic Critique (pdf, 26 pages)
By my lights, there is much to be happy about in GAFCON’s Final Statement and the Jerusalem Declaration. There are several sources of concern, however. These documents (i) misrepresent the traditional, biblical teaching on marriage, (ii) appear to add to the apostolic gospel and may well in fact do so, (iii) focus on a teaching that pales in comparison with much weightier heterodoxy that runs rampant amongst the leadership of the present North American Anglican provinces, (iv) reject the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury, with all that entails with respect to the Instruments of Unity and Anglican identity, and (v) affirm Articles 1, 5, 8, 21, and 37 of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, all of which contain dubious elements. With a pedigree like this it seems neither wise nor right for orthodox, biblically faithful Anglicans to assent to the Statement or Declaration, nor for the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans and the Anglican Church in North America to require such assent for membership. In light of these concerns, I make several friendly suggestions to the leaders of these new Anglican bodies.





  





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