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HONGKONG THE

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY

21,

1938.

THE BIBLE IS NOT INFALLIBLE,

SAYS CHURCH

Evidence of

Birth Virgin "Inconclusive"

The Report of the Church of England Commission on Church Doctrine, is given in full below.

"It has been our desire," says the Archbishop of York, chairman of the Commission, in his introduction, "to set forth the truth of the everlasting Gospel unchanged in substance," believing that "its permanence amidst the welter of modern theories may be one of its chief means of drawing to itself the attention of a bewildered genera- tion."

In pursuit of this desire, the have been "brutally frank at times." freely, at times even playfully, in

In as much as it contains no sum- mary of conclualons (writes Hugh

members of the Commisfon But their minds have moved the Intercourse of friends." The Creation. The world, is God's creation, by there is abundant room

It is evolution.

generally agreed "among educated Christians" that the two Creation narratives in Genesis

COMMISSION

These Sign. The Roport

The Archbishop of York (chair. man.).

Professora J. ML. Greed, 0. 0. 3. Webb and A. E. Taylor.

to

Bishops of Derby, Chelmsford, Glasgow and Galloway.

Dr. W. R. Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's Dr. E. G. Belwyn, Dean of Winchester,

Cannona F. R. Barry, WV. L. Grenated, W. L. Knox, J. H. Mos- ley, Oliver Quick, V. F. Storr.

Bir Walter Moberley, the Hevz. C. F. Hussell, U. J. Shebbeare and L. 8. Thornton, Mr. Will Spens, Master of Corpus Chriall. College, Cambridge.

state, whether or not the word Purgo-1 tory is used to describe it, where there. will be progressive growth after death and, it may be, needed purification of the soul.

No Soul Finally Lost 7--Whether any soul will be finally lost it is not possible for man to declare. It would not be easy to find in the New Testa- a and ment

PAPACY:

GROUND

FOR

Figorously excluding all hope of REUNION

ther opportunity after death.

There must be room in the Church for those who believe that some will actually be lost, and also for those who hold that the love of God will at last win penitenco and answering love from overy soul 1 has created.

Communion with the Departed.

In, the redeemed society, living and departed shore real fellowship in Christ. The only way to come closer to those who are departed in His faith 18 to draw near to God.

Prayers to the Saint-Direct ad- to which the teaching was given are not always set forth." Direct appeal dress to departed saints must not be Isolated texts, in so far as it condemned as a private practice, pro- ignores auch considerations, is liable vided I be to ask for their prayers:

anything more is perllous and Illegit error, The Resurrection-The Resurrec-male. The vital point to be secured, ion was an event a real and concrete at all costs, is that God alone is the as the Crucifixion, but is a mystery object of our worship. and on act of God wholly unique in human history. Some Commissioners, however, incline to the belief that the ment between the emptiness of the Tomb and the appearances of the ple to Prayers for the Departed, risen Lord belong to the sphere of

PRAYERS FOR DEPARTED Prayers for the Departed. There

closure, Penance is customary, but must be of much a character that it does not compel the penitent to make his offence publle.

The view, is expressed by --the Commissioners that there is urgent need for closer co-operation be- tween Christian psycho-therapy and the pastors! ministry of the Church. A psycho-therapy which ignores God, however, may some- times lead to an apparent solution | of Internal conillet which, from a rellelous standpoint, may be A dilaaster. The Report urges the appointment of a Commission to consider marriage in its doctrinal, ethical,

moral- theological and disciplinary aspects.

MARRIAGE AND GRACE

Redwood) it is no casy matter to dis- for a variety of incorles regarding its connection made in the New Tesla" is no theological objection in princi- | Commissioners, "that, in the case of

til the essence of a document which, as the chairman says, is not written chielly for the general public, and

which, at times, is couched in langu- I. and 11. are mythological in origin, religious symbolism rather than toexistence of spiritual beings other long marriage union, grace is afford-

und that their value. is symbolical that of historical fact, rather than historical.

age bewildering to the lay mind.

The Archbishop of York alone is -committed in print to personal state- Hin and the Fall-Man, throughout ments. He tells us in his chairman's history, has been under the induence introduction that he wholeheartedly of a blas towards evil, but this is not accepts as historical facts our Lord's) bound up with the historienl truth of birth from a virgin mother and the any story of a Fall, Sio is that which resurrection of His physical body is contrary to God's nature and im- from death and the tomb.

pairs communion between God and man. Traditional distinctions be-

reliance is

fully placed ed which,

cerned to fulfil the obligations in- upon it, will enable the persons con- volved and to rise to the opportuni- cern ties offered in their married life in spite of all difficulties, however

A Note on the Papacy declares the Church of England to have been Tight in the sind which it took In the sixteenth century and to be still contemporary Papacy.

between spiritual and physical cic-iso cerlous as to cut ofl a soul from the ceived be a Last Judgment, con- to remove it in a note. dealing with bound to resist the claims of the

ments in our nature are more com-grace of God. pletely understood."

THE DOCTRINE OF LAST THINGS

even

"We desire to arm" says the

Angels and Demons-Belief in the taking before God to enter on a life- two Christian persons freely under-

than human is in no way irrational, The Ascension. Whatever the but it is legitimate for a Christian nature of the event underlying the either to suspend judgment or to in New Testament narratives of the terpret the language of Scripture or Ascension, Its physical features are to the Liturgy in u purely symbolical be interpreted symbolically, since they sense. are closely related to the conception To many people certain of the fore-rate of Heaven as a place locally fixed going statements will appear to raise

questions

Creeds concerning the beyond the sky.

The Last Judgment The Commis commonly used in Church worship.

The Commissioners have antici- And he adds: "I anticipate, though en mortal and venial sin cannot slon la "united in believing that it is with less assurance, that these events will appear to be intrinsically bound be upheld. It is not possible to de-Impossible to pronounce" whether pated this dimculty, and they seek

there will up with His delty when relations fine any point at which ain becomes ther

as an event supervening on the "the Conception of Symbolle Truth," conclusion of this world's history.

Inid down

It adds, however, that "some of It

that statements

us look forward to a reunion of The eschatology of the New Testa-affirming particular facts mey be

Christendom having is centre in a DIVIDED ON MIRACLES ment (ie., Its treatment of last things) found to have value as pictorial ex-

Primacy, such as might be found in The process of human generation is 18 best understood "not as a quasi-pressions of spiritual truths,

a Papacy which had renounced not in itself sinful, and that the sexual literal description of a future event, though the supposed facts themselves

certain of its present claims.” On the question of Church Order nature is necessarily or inherently but as a parable of the continuous did not actually happen, It is not permanent relation of the perpetus therefore of necessity illegitimate to sinful must be absolutely denied,

The Virgin Birth-Historical evl-ally imminent eternal order to the accept and affirm particular clausest is held that precedents, as such, of Jesus process of events in time." But in the of the Creeds white understanding are no longer regarded as decisive

world to come God's judgment on our them in this symbolic sense.

for all time. There is now no Order dence for the virgin birth Christ is inconclusive.

Assent to formularies, and the use accepted by all who claim the name While accepting the doctrine of cartily lives will be made manifest to

ourselves and our neighbours.

of liturgical language in public wor- of Christian, and there has come a the Incarnation, some of the Com-

Death and After.We have no ship, should be understood as signify change in outlook which must be missioners belleve that the birth coherent idea of what happens after ing general acceptance without im- fully acknowledged. It is possible was normal, and some regard the death, but the main tradition is that plying detailed assent to every phrase to pay too high a price for Order, and fundamental loyalty to the Lord may, records as parables rather than as of a period of disembodied existence or proposition thus employed, treating of actual events.

before the anal consummation. The

But the Gospel cannot stand un. in certain circumstances, involve re- Miracies. God I could work miracles traditonal scheme of an immediate impaired, and no adequate account of bellion against the existing minis- If He pleased, but the Commission is particular judgment followed by its origin can be given, unless they, and even the establishment of a "It may be that the course of divided as to whether or not miracu- general judgment at a general resur-broad Tradition concerning Jesus," to

or the present rection, with admission to Heaven history is about to afford a lurld lous events occur. In ilustration the place of Eschato- state of knowledge, it is impossible to consignment to Hell na the issue, which the Gospels and the Church have borne witness through the cen- complcta religious faith" make the same evidential use of the cannot be accepted us a chronological turies, 13 accepted as historical, and narratives of miraties in the Gospels account of future events, but only as in particular unless it is possible for the Church to proclaim that, in the which appeared possible in the past. a symbolic outline.

Resurrection of the Body The historical Ogure of Jesus of Nazareth, THE EFFECTS OF

literalistic belief in a future resusci-"the Word was made fesh and dwelt talion of the actual physical frame among us." TRANSLATION which is inld in the tomb must be rejected quite frankly. But the Boul

In another passage, dealing with Eschatology (the doctrine of Last Things), he alludes to "great contu- alon in the public mind" caused by a tendency to interpret the "symbolic images" of the New Testament, and particularly of Revelation, as "state- ments of future facts." Remarking that some people tend to reject the Gospel as a whole because they cannot; believe in a Second Advent as con- ventionally portrayed, the Archbishop

Boys:

logy In

Among the report's findings are: The Bible-As the inspired record of God's self-revelation lo man, the Bible is "The Word of God." But not all its parts are on the same spiritual level, and the tradition of its inerran- by cannot be mintalaed in the light

The Teaching of Christ The knowledge at our disposal. Its the authority must not be taken as pre-record cannot always be accepted as Judging the conclusions of historical, reproducing our Lord's own words: activity, critical and scientific investigation in] They have, in any case, been trans- any field.

Of the remaining sections of the

or the spirit will still have its appro- Report, the most important treat of the Sacraments, their nature, their of expression and validity, and the right or otherwise priate organ

Purgatory The Church does not of certain persons to administer them:

mention:

new ministry,

Archbishop Forgiven

Pope Sends Blessing

iated, and the occasions with regard' exclude the idea of an intermedia/The following points call for special in May 1930, had the archbishopric of

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Rouen taken away from him by thei Grace God Himself is active in Pope, died in Nice forgiven by the ench Sacrament. Their psychological Pope.

value is derived from the fact that

they are not psychological processes. He was seventy-four. Knowing: Grace is bestowed by means of ex- that he was about to die, he sent à ternal signs, though as to the manner message of loyalty and affection of its bestowal the Commission is the Pope. A few days ago came the divided.

reply, It was a telegram of forgive-

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ta

Baptism, is a means of deliverance from the domination of influences Mgr. de la Villerabei was deposed) which predispose to sin. It is a vital for a breach of Canon Law. He de- ordinance of the New Testament, and ferred or caused to be deferred to a in the Hte of the unbaptised saint secular court a case of alleged mis- there İs n defect. Nevertheless, appropriation of funds by an eccle- "many who seem to be within are slastic. The Fope first called on him without, and many who seem to be to reign, and when he falled to do so, without are within."

deposed him.

Later he was mande titular bishop of Mytilene,

REAL PRESENCE

·AT COMMUNION

Holy Communion--No Christian doubly that, in some sense, Christ is present in the Holy Communion. Thought and research concerning the relations of spirit and matter have caused a shifting of many land-

marks in old controversies. Few philosophers continue to think of the substance of any physical object as a fixed core of being which remains the same behid all changes affect- ing its "accidents or sensible appear- ances."

Some Anglican theologians AFO pulling forward tentative restate- ments of the doctrine of the Beat; Presence, and would not reject the term Tranmbstantiation in every sense it could reasonably bear. They would argue that there is a real change of substance in the bread and wine through consecra- tion.

Reservation The use of the. :ro- served sacrament is valid, and the extent and circumstances of its em- ployment may properly be deter- mined by any particular church, but the Commission is not agreed whether there is a theologleat justification for the practice of "devotions" (the adoration of the consecreted elements In the reserved ancrament),

The Commission express special satisfaction that they are able to pre- sent an agreed statement on Confes- alen und Absolution,

They note a widespread and in- vreasing desire on the part of In dividuals to confess to mon, as well an to God, and to avail themselves of this direct and private ministry of the Church, which, while open to all, is obligatory on none,

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