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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY

1038:

RISKS

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 members of the Commision have been "brutally frank at times." But their minds have moved "Ireely, at times even playfully, in the intercourse of friends."

In as much as it contains no swm- The Creation-The world is God's mary of conclusions (writes Hugh creation, by there is abundant room All the essence of a document which, evolution. It is generally agreed as the chairman says, is not written "amang educated Christians" chiefly for die general public, and the two Creation narratives in Genesis

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Those Sign The Report

The Archbishop of York (chair-

11.).

Professors 3. M. Greed, C. C. J. Webb and A. E. Taylor.

Bishops of Derby, Chelmsford, Glasgow and Galloway,

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

Cannons F. L. Barry, W. L. Grenated, W. L. Knox, J. K. Moz- ler. Oliver Quick, V. F. Storr.

Sir Walter Moberley, the Rova, C. F. Russell, C. J. Bbebbcaro and L.B. Thornton, Mr. Will Spena, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

to which the teaching was given are Direct appen not always set forth. to isolated texts, in so far as le Ignores such considerations, is liable

atate, whether or not the word Purgi-|| tory la 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 fost it is not possible for man to declare, It would not be easy to find in the New Testo- ment a basis for definitely and rigorously excluding all hope of fur- ther opportunity after death,

PAPACY: GROUND

FOR

REUNION

The There is must be⠀ room' in the closure. Penance is customary, but Church for those who believe that must be of such a character that it somo will actually be fost, and also does not compel the penitent to make for those who hold that the love his offenco public. of God will at last win penilence and answering love from every soul, it has created.

Communion with the Departed.-—- In the redeemed society, living and departed share real fellowship In Christ. The only way to come closer to those who are departed in His faith is to draw near to God,

of

Tho view is expressed by the Commissioners that there is urgent need for closer, co-operation be tiveen Christian paycho-therapy and the pastoral ministry of the Church. A psycho-therapy, which Ignores God, however, may some times lead to an apparent solution' of internal conflict which, from-a religious standpoint, may be a disaster.

The Report urges the appointment

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"We desire to affirm" says the

Redwood) it is no easy matter to dis- for a variety of theories regarding Its connection made In the New Testa no theological objection in princi- | Commissioners, "that, in the case of

that

which, at times, is couched in langu- I, and II. are mythological in origin, religious symbolism rather than to than human is in no way irrational,ed which, if rellance is fully placed

It

pairs communion between God and beyond the a place locally fixed; going statements will appear to raise a Note on the Papacy declares the

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Prayers to the Saints-Direct ad- dress to departed saints must not be condemned as a private practice, pro- vided it be to ask for their prayers: to error.

anything more is perilous and illegit- The Resurrection-The Resurrec-mate. The vital point to be secured, tion was an event as real and concrete at all costs, is that God alone is the as the Crucifixion, but is a mystery object of our worship, and an act of God wholly unique in

PRAYERS FOR DEPARTED human history. Some Commissioners, however, Incline to the bellef that the

Prayers for the Departed-There ment between the emptiness of the Tomb and the appearances of the ple to Prayers for the Departed.

Angels and Demens-Bellet in the two Christian persons freely under risen Lord belong to the sphere of

existence of spiritual beings other taking before God to enter on a life- long marriage union, grace is afford- ago bewildering to the lay mind,

and that their value is symbolical that of historical fact.

The Ascension. - The Archbishop of York alone is rather than historical

is legitimate for a Christian Whatever the but committed in print to personal state- Sin and the Fall-Mau, throughout nature of the event underlying the either to suspend judgment or to in upon it, will enable the persons con- cerned to fuil the obligations in- ments, He tells us in his chairman's history, has been under the influence New Testament narratives of the lerpret the language of Scripture or Introduction that he wholeheartedly of a blus towards evil, but this is not Ascension, its physical features are to the Liturgy in a purely symbolical volved and to rise to the opportuni- ties offered in their married life in accepts as historical facts our Lord's bound up with the historical truth of be interpreted symbolically, since they sense.

of all difficulties, however birth from a virgin mother and the

any story of

Fall, Sin is that which are closely related to the conception. To many people certain of the fore-ve." resurrection of His physical body is contrary to God's nature and im- of Heaven from death and the tomb.

sky.

questions concerning the

Creeds The Last Judgment The Commis commonly used in Church worship.

Church distinctions be-

of England to have been And he adds: "I anticipate, though man. Traditional

The Commissioners have anticlight in the stand which it took in with less assurance, that these events tween mortal and veniat sia cannot alon is "united in believing that it is will appear to be intrinsically bound be upheld. It is not possible to de-impossible to pronounce whether pated this difficulty, and they seek the sixteenth century and to be still up with His deity when relations fiae any point at which sin becomes there will be a Last Judgment, con- to remove it in a note dealing with bound to resist the claims of the between spiritual and physleni ele- so serious as to cut off a soul from the ceived as an event supervening on the "the Conception of Symbolie Truth. contemporary Papacy.

conclusion of this world's history. It is laid down that statements ments in our nature are more com- Brace of God,

The eschatology of the New Testa- affirming particular facts may be pletely understood."

ment (ie., its treatment of last things) found to have value as pictorial ex- is best understood not as a quaal-pressions of spiritual truths, oven literal description of a future event, though the supposed facts themselves but as a parable of the continuous did not actually happen. it is not permanent relation of the perpetu- therefore of necessity illegitimate to ally Imminent eternal order to the accept and affiren particular clauses world to come God's judgment on our them in this symbolic sense. Christ is inconclusive. to Interpret the “gymbolic

earthly lives will be made manifest to Aasent to formularies, and the use While accepting the doctrine of ourselves and our neighbours. the Incarnatiɑn, some of the Com-

of liturgical language in public wor- Death and After. We have no ship, should be understood as signify the birth coherent idea of what happens after ing general acceptance without im- missioners. bellove that was normal, and same regard the death, but the main tradition is that plying detailed assent to every phrase fundamental loyalty to the Lord may. records as parables rather than as of a period of disembodied existence or proposition thus employed. Miracles-God could work miracles traditonal scheme of an immediate impaired, and no adequate account of bellion against the existing minis

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which the Gospels and the Church consignment to Hell

as the issue, have borne witness through the cen cannot be accepted as a chronological turies, is accepted as historical, and account of future events, but only as in particular unless it is possible for a symbolle out!

the Church to proclaim, that, in the historical Agure of Jesus of Nazareth, "the Word was made flesh and dwell among us."

THE DOCTRINE OF LAST THINGS

In another passage, dealing with Eschatology (the doctrine of Last

DIVIDED ON MIRACLES The process of human generation is not in itself sinful, and that the sexual nature is necessarily or inherently sinful must be absolutely denied.

The Virgin Birth-Historical evi-

"

It adds, however, that "some of us look forward to a reunion' of Christendom having fie centre in a Primacy, such as might be found in Papacy which had renounced certain of its present claims, On the question of Church Order it is held that

as decisive for all time. There is now no Order accepted by all who claim the name of Christian, and there has come a change in outlook which must be fully acknowledged, It is possible to

high a price for Order, and pay too

Things), he alludes to "great confu- dence for the virgin birth of Jesus process of events in time.” But in the of the Creeds while understanding are no longer ecedents, as such,

sion in the public mind" caused by a

of the New Testament, and

Ry of Revelation, na "state-

treating of actual events.

If He pleased, but the Commission is divided as to whether or not miracu- lous events occur. In the present state of knowledge, it is impossible to make the same evidential use of the narratives of miracles in the Gospels which appeared possible in the past THE EFFECTS OF TRANSLATION

before the final consummation, The

ments of future facts." Itemarking that some people tend to reject the Gospel as a whole because they cannot belleve in a Second Advent as con- ventionally portrayed, the Archbishop says:

"It may be that the course of history is about to afford a turid Blustration of the place of Eschato- logy in a complete religious falik," Among the report's findings are: The Bible.As the inspired record of God's self-revelation to man, the Bible is "The Word of God." But not all its parts are on the same spiritual Ievel, and the tradition of its inerran- cy cannot be maintained in the light

The Teaching of Christ. The of the knowledge at our disposal. Its 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.

criticnt and scientific Investigation in They have, in any case, been trans- any field.

or

outline. Resurrection of the Body-The literalistic belief in a future resusel- tation of the actual physical frame which is laid in the tomb must be

Of the remaining sections of the rejected quite frankly, But the soul or the spirit will still have its appro-Report, the most important treat of Sacraments, their nature, their priate organ of expression

validity, and the right or otherwise of certain persons to administer them.

mention:

and

Purgatory The Church does 'not'

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Archbishop Forgiven

Pope Sends Blessing

-Paris- Monseigneur de la Villerabel, who,

in May 1936, had the archbishopric of Pape, died in Nice forgiven by the Rouen taken away from him by the

Pope.

Grace God Himself is active in each. Sacrament. Their psychological value is derived from the fact that they are not psychological processes. He was soventy-four. Knowing Grace is bestowed by means of ex- that he was about to die, he sent a ternal signs, though as to the manner message of loyalty and affection of its bestowal the Commission is the Pope. A few days ago come the divided.

reply. It was a telegram of forgive- ness and blessing.

to

Baptimi.-Baptism, oven Infant Baptism, is a means of deliverance from the domination of influences Mgr. de la Villerabel 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 life of the unbaptised saint secular court a case of alleged mix- there is a defect. Nevertheless, appropriation of funds by an ecclo- "many who seem to be within ora siastic. The Pope first called on him without, and many who seem to be to reign, and when he failed to do so, without are within."

deposed him.

Later he was made titular Arch- blahop of Mytilene,

REAL PRESENCE

AT COMMUNION.

Holy Communion-No Christian doubts that, in some sense, Christ is | present in the Holy Communion. Thought and research concerning the relations of spirit and malter, have! caused a shifting of many land- marks in old controversies. Fow philosophers continue to think of the substance of any physical object us a fixed core of being which remains the same behind all changes nect- ing its "accidents or sensible appear-

ances."

Bomo Anglican theologians are putting forward tentative restate-| ments of the doctrine of the Real Presence, and would not reject the torm Transubstantiation in every senso it could reasonably. bear, They would argue that thera 'is a Fral change of substance in the bread and wine through consecra

lon

Resorvation-The use of this 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 Ureological justification for the practice of "devotions” (the adoration of the consecreted elements In the reserved sacrament),

The Commission express-special- satisfaction that they are able to pre- sent an agreed statement on Confes alon and. Abrolution.

They note a widespread and in- creasing desire' on the part of in- dividuals to confess to man, as well an to God, and to nvelt themselves of this direct and private ministry of the Church, which, while open to all, is obligatory on none, ceder a tiny › Conferelon In haard under the peal "secrets" but in vartala cases, the

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