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"The church confesses its faith when it bears a present witness to God's grace in Jesus Christ," says the preface to the new creed. Present witness demands strong affirmation that, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, and that God is in the church to complete...
Church conservatives, on the other hand, protested that the 1967 Confession is a betrayal rather than a necessary updating of traditional Presbyterian belief. Among their specific charges: the new Confession's teaching on Christ makes no mention of either the virgin birth or the traditional doctrine of the Incarnation...
In defense of such changes, Dowey explained that the Westminster Confession by itself was neither "ancient enough nor modern enough," to serve as the church's sole confession of faith, and that what the committee did was to add to the totality of what the church believes. Scriptural criticism...
To Dowey and his fellow creed makers, the real significance of the new confession is its emphasis on the theology of reconciliation, something largely absent from the traditional creeds, yet vital to the church today. How the commissioners felt about one form of reconciliation was apparent in the approval of...
A Few Inches to Go. The confession itself has a few inches to go before it becomes the new creed of the church. Besides voting general approval of the committee's work, the assembly agreed that the confession should be studied by a new committee of 15 (about half...