Waiapu Church Gazette. JULY, 1914. Resolutions of Convocation.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume V, Issue 1, 1 July 1914, Page 6

Waiapu Church Gazette. JULY, 1914. Resolutions of Convocation.

In this month's issue of the " Gazette " wdjiavc recorded the important resolutions which the Bishop of London brought forward m the Upper House of Convocation of the Province of Canterbury. We regret that space does not allow of our inserting the speeches of other Bishops dealing with these resolutions, notably that of the Bishop of Winchester" It is well for us to be reminded that the great truths concerning our Lord to which witness is borne by Holy Scripture, were held by the followers of the Lord before they were committed to writing, and that we have not all the evidence and cannot have all the evidence which went to the making of the standard of truth. It would seem to be implied, the Bishop states, " that the belief m the Virgin Birth, for example, was an inference from the first chapter of S. Luke, and that as criticism to-day is more capable of dealing with the first chapter of S. Luke than it was m a time soon after it was written, which was perhaps true m some senses, therefore they might revise it. But surely what was really true was not that that belief was drawn from the first chapter of S. Luke ; but that the first chapter of S. Luke was a witness of the belief." A statement made by Dr. Moberley m his book entitled " Principles and Problems of Doctrinal Standards," - is quoted with entire assent. " The attempt to marshal evidence for or against, say, the truth of the Virgin Birth as if it could be a new question to be determined by itself m this age apart from either its historical connection with the immemorial faith or its theological connection with the primary and basal conceptions of Christianity, does seem ;to me to be beyond all words superficial and unreal." It is well that the peril of drifting into what is really jUnitarianism has been recognised and that the Bishops at Home m the Canterbury Convocation have made it quite clear that they fully recognise the gravity of the position created by certain writers of the textreme Modernist School of thought.