Reflections on an Open Letter

Abstract

"The recently published Open Letter to the Anglican Episcopate from the Executive Committee of the Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion expresses goodwill towards the work of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commissions, but it voices a few remaining difficulties. These are important because they arise from a profound concern that the deepest truths of our faith should not be in any way compromised. The reformers of the sixteenth century rightly saw as the two great principles the supremacy of Scripture and the sovereignty of Christ. These are two faces of a single truth, for Christ is himself God's Word, but in their application to the questions discussed in the ARCIC texts it is convenient to look at them separately"