Beliefs
The centre of the King's Family of Churches' teaching is the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and embrace the same Doctrinal Essentials as other Christian bodies. The King's Family of Churches recognises two historic oecumenical creeds: the Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed, which are used frequently in services of worship. They also acknowledge the importance of the Chalcedonian Creed.
The threefold sources of decision-making are based on Scripture, tradition informed by Scripture, and godly Wisdom instructed by Scripture. This balance of scripture, tradition and reason is traced to the work of Richard Hooker, a sixteenth century apologist. In Hooker's model, scripture is the primary means of arriving at doctrine and things stated plainly in scripture are accepted as true. Issues that are ambiguous are determined by tradition, which is checked by reason.
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