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<< "Toward an Anglican Theology in the Spirit of Windsor" paper by Revd Canon Dr. Tim Connor & Revd Canon Dr. George Sumner
Thursday February 1st, 2007
In a recent address to a conference at Huron College, University of Western Ontario, the Revd Canon Dr. Timothy Connor and the Revd Canon Dr. George Sumner presented a paper entitled, Toward an Anglican Theology in the Spirit of Windsor, in the course of which they proposed a set of “theological convictions” that they deemed essential in any construal of Anglican self-understanding. These convictions or theses were as follows:

Thesis One: the Lambeth Quadrilateral identifies four interrelated elements of ecclesial communion on which sustained, informed theological reflection must take place: Scripture, Creeds, Sacraments and Orders.

Thesis Two: Scripture stands in a relation of asymmetry to Creeds, Sacraments and Orders; it is supreme and sufficient in matters of Christian doctrine and practice.

Thesis Three: Scripture and Sacraments, insofar as they render the death-resurrection of Jesus Christ apprehensible to faith, stand together inextricably.

Thesis Four: The Creeds as distillations of the Church’s understanding of the gospel form the interpretative matrix of Scripture in communion.

Thesis Five: The ministry of bishops, presbyters and deacons serves the gospel in communion in the right ordering of Christian doctrine and practice.

You may read the full text of the address below.
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