Beliefs
The Bible is their all-sufficient rule for faith and practice and is summarized in the Nicene Creed and The Apostles' Creed. Their beliefs are stated in the Preamble and Constitution of Book I of the CCI Canons. Their commitment catholicity and the unity it implies is expressed by adopting the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral 1886, 1888 as a seminal core of their canons and practices.
The fundamental principles defining inclusion in the Communion are detailed in the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral of 1886. The four basic statements are:
1. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the revealed Word of God. 2. The Nicene Creed as the sufficient statement of the Christian Faith. 3. The two Sacraments — Baptism and the Supper of the Lord — ministered with unfailing use of Christ's words of institution and of the elements ordained by Him. 4. The Historic Episcopate, locally adapted in the methods of its administration to the varying needs of the nations and peoples called of God into the unity of His Church.
The CCI acknowledges and blends the three main streams of Christian worship in church history: evangelical, sacramental and charismatic. The leadership of CCI has integrated the inspiration from Christian theologians such as Lesslie Newbigin and Robert Webber. CCI follows the practices, beliefs and life of the early Celtic church and early Methodism, which they feel became a signpost for the Convergence Movement.
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“The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)
“The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)