To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism

Part II + Believing in Christ

Holy Scripture and the Creeds

“For Anglicans, as for all genuine Christians, authentic Christianity is apostolic Christianity. Apostolic Christianity rests on the historic, eyewitness testimony of Jesus’ followers, the apostles, to the facts of Jesus’ life, death, resurrection, ascension, present heavenly reign, and promised future return. Both Jesus and his apostles understood these facts to fulfill the Old Testament hopes of the Kingdom (or reign) of God, to which God’s covenant with Israel was intended to lead, and which the Christian Church has received as a reality from Jesus and his apostles. Anglicans affirm that the Bible, the Old and New Testament together, is “God’s Word written” (Articles of Religion, 20), from which we learn these authoritative facts. By the second century, these key facts of apostolic faith had been organized into a syllabus of topics for catechetical teaching (the Rule of Faith), and this syllabus became the Apostles’ Creed—so called because it sums up the apostolic faith.” - To Be a Christian, pg. 15

Links mentioned in today’s episode:

Anglican Studies Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/primacy-of-scripture-part-1/id482438110?i=1000106715803

Sacramentalist Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/06-andy-stanley-marcionite-heretic-or-expositor-of-paul/id1457082281?i=1000438836588