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I will vigorously defend the Seal of the Confessional, as something deeply embedded in our historic formularies.
We have to let the Word judge us and we have the foundational Canons and Formularies to help us.
In all this, I will endeavour to promote our faith as expressed in the catholic creeds and Anglican formularies.
This is nothing less than faithful parish ministry, in accordance with historic formularies of the Church of England.
This ministry will only be maintained if we adhere to the ‘mere Christianity’ of our formularies.
However, while living in Exeter, I came into contact with the Book of Common Prayer at an Anglo-Catholic church - at which point I fell in love with the Prayer Book, leading me to further explore the Anglican tradition and realising that I had found my home within the Formularies.
THE FORMULARIES must be celebrated - the Church of England has a beautiful and rich history in her practice and belief; it is important that we celebrate the history of our national Church, ensuring that the Prayer Book is kept alive and available to all.
It is heartbreaking to witness the lack of focus on our Formularies, which have been a crucial part of the Church’s history; from the beginning until now, they have served as an important rule of our Anglican tradition.
I am an Anglican by conviction, not necessity and I feel our structures, doctrine, liturgy, prayer book and historic formularies to be not only an immense safeguard and strength, but also our godly heritage, passed down for us to treasure.
I will be standing for a renewed commitment to scripture, the historic formularies of the Church of England, and the traditions which have sustained us for hundreds of years.
I will vote according to conscience, Scripture, the formularies of the Church, and the good of the gospel.
In all deliberations I would aim to ensure that Scripture is upheld as our primary source of truth, and to encourage the Church to remain faithful to its formularies: the Book of Common Prayer, the 39 Articles and the Ordinal.
At this time I am standing because I love the Church, and in particular because I love the Church of England, which has nurtured my faith and given me the gift of theological education and ministerial formation, the opportunity to minister as part of the established church with its parish system, which serves every mile of this country, and whose doctrines and formularies are generous and faithful to the inheritance we have received in Christ, while remaining distinctly Reformed and Catholic.
My work with Church of England schools through Christianity as a Global World Faith has strengthened my passion for helping young people encounter Christianity as a living, global and culturally diverse faith. ● A Historic Faith: I believe in the historic Christian faith expressed in the catholic Creeds and affirmed in the Church of England’s historic formularies, with Christ at its centre and Scripture as its foundation.
My confidence in the Church of England is rooted in its commitment to Scripture, the historic Christian faith, and the Anglican formularies.
I describe myself as a prayer book evangelical – rooted in the evangelical convictions and faith encapsulated in our Anglican formularies, and recognising my Anglo- Catholic roots.
After some painful debates, the House of Bishops has committed to act with greater transparency and with appropriate regard to due process and the historic formularies of the church.
member of the Church Buildings Council As an orthodox member of the Church of England, I uphold the Church’s formularies, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-nine Articles and the Ordinal.