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What we see in him, as we see most especially in the prayer book, is that the very means by which one discerns and appreciates the divine authority of the Scriptures is simultaneously the means by which one comes to understand their true meaning.

In other words, faith is both the grounds of accepting the authority of Scripture and for correctly understanding it. At its foundation, faith is an act of the will.

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To quote Laud again:. Faith is a mixed act of the will and the understanding; and the will inclines the understanding to yield full approbation to that whereof it sees not full proof. This historically Anglican emphasis on faith and the will over knowledge has a marked effect on the nature of the task at the center of interpretation, namely, attaining understanding of the text and, through that, its author. And it certainly has no less a claim to the label Anglican than the other options popular in our Communion today.


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As I have shown, Laud and other early Anglicans would underline instead the efficacy of faith and obedience for obtaining a right understanding of Scripture. Bergstrom is canon for vocations in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, and priest-in-charge of St.

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His other posts are here. It is in the public domain. More and Malcom Cross, Anglicanism: And great reason for this, because it goes higher, and so upon a safer principle, than either of the other can in this life. But I think it is. The obvious places to observe Augustine on these issues are De doctrina Christiana and De catechizandis rudibus.

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Look especially for his understanding of the role of the theological virtues faith, hope, and love in approaching and interpreting sacred Scripture. They take their families and depart into the wilderness. Their sufferings and afflictions in the wilderness. The course of their travels.

They come to the large waters.

The early ‘Anglican’ reading of Scripture (1): William Laud

He confoundeth them, and buildeth a ship. They call the name of the place Bountiful.

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They cross the large waters into the promised land, and so forth. This is according to the account of Nephi; or in other words, I, Nephi, wrote this record. Nephi begins the record of his people—Lehi sees in vision a pillar of fire and reads from a book of prophecy—He praises God, foretells the coming of the Messiah, and prophesies the destruction of Jerusalem—He is persecuted by the Jews.

Wo, wo, unto Jerusalem, for I have seen thine a abominations!