“How the Body Sings in Tune” is indeed helpful as we think how we can walk together, with its emphasis on the Spirit, and how we treat each other. Finding the Trinity in the OT was interesting. I still think that the Lambeth Quadrilateral and the catechism in the Book of Common Prayer have words in them which help our common understanding of the persons of the Trinity, and Jesus’ role in our salvation—words upon which we can base our common faith. If we significantly change those words, or omit them, or change the concepts behind them, then I think we cease to have a basis of agreement for walking together as a church, with a mission to bring people to Christ—not only in the corporal works of mercy which we do (and without which we cannot call ourselves Christian), but also in bringing people to understand who Christ is as a person with whom they can have a relationship—a relationship which strengthens their own lives and the lives of those with whom they come in contact. If we require additional formularies of faith of all members of the church, as I think inheritors of the reformed traditions sometimes try to do (for example, in pinning down various leaders of the church in front of reporters), I think we make it very difficult to walk together.
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