Methodist Doctrine: The Essentials
Campbell, Ted A.
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John Wesley distinguished between essential doctrines on which agreement or consensus is critical and opinions about theology or church practices on which disagreement must be allowed. Though today few people join churches based on doctrinal commitments, once a person has joined a church it becomes important to know the historic teachings of that church's tradition.
In Methodist Doctrine: The Essentials, Ted Campbell outlines historical doctrinal consensus in American Episcopal Methodist Churches in a comparative and ecumenical dialogue with the doctrinal inheritance of other major families of Christian tradition. In this way, the book shows both what Methodist churches historically teach in common with ecumenical Christianity and what is distinctive about the Methodist tradition in its various contemporary forms. Documents examined include The Twenty-Five Articles of Religion, The General Rules, Wesley's Standard Sermons and Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, The Methodist Social Creed, and the Apostles' Creed.
PREFACE,
INTRODUCTION: Methodists and Doctrine,
CHAPTER 1: Doctrines About Religious Authority,
CHAPTER 2: Doctrines About God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit,
CHAPTER 3: Foundational Doctrines About Human Nature and Salvation,
CHAPTER 4: Distinctively Wesleyan Doctrines About the "Way of Salvation",
CHAPTER 5: Doctrines About Church, Ministry, and Sacraments,
CHAPTER 6: Doctrines About Judgment, Eternal Life, and the Reign of God,
CHAPTER 7: Methodist Doctrine and Methodist Ethos,
APPENDIX 1: Texts of the Apostles' Creed, the Twenty- five Articles of Religion, and the General Rules,
APPENDIX 2: Background Notes on Historic Methodist Doctrinal Statements,
GLOSSARY AND INDEX,
DOCTRINES ABOUT RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY
Religious Authority
Christians need to be clear about the grounds of their teachings, but significant differences over the authority for Christian teachings have long divided the churches. Eastern Orthodox churches and the Roman Catholic Church have historically taught that the basis of all religious teaching is the unbroken unity of Scripture and later church traditions. The Protestant Reformation questioned the purity of later church traditions, and insisted on the authority of the Bible above all traditions. Since the time of the Reformation, the use of reason and reflection on common human experience (in addition to or beyond the use of Scripture and traditions) has deeply influenced Christian understandings of the grounds of religious teachings. Very often, differing understandings about the grounds of religious authority lie at the basis of other differences in Christian teaching.
Sufficiency and Primacy of Scripture
Articles 5; UM Confession 4
UM "Theological Task"
The Twenty-five Articles of Religion shared by the AME, AMEZ, CME, and UM churches affirm that the Bible "containeth all things necessary to salvation" (Article 5), that is, that the Scriptures teach everything that human beings need to know for their salvation. The title of this Article uses the term "sufficiency of the Scriptures" to describe this belief. Implied in the Articles and the UM Confession of Faith is the belief that the Bible is the primary source and authority for our faith, that is, no other authority can override the authority of God revealed in the Scriptures. This teaching on the primacy of the Scriptures is made explicit in the UM statement of "Our Theological Task." The Methodist teaching on the sufficiency and primacy of the Bible generally concurs with the Protestant Reformation's emphasis on the use of Scripture to reform the church. Methodists have not historically defined their understanding of the Bible's authority as involving "inerrancy" or "infallibility" of the Bible (as fundamentalist churches typically do), except that we have historically insisted that the Bible does not fail in teaching the way of salvation. Our emphasis on the sufficiency and primacy of the Scriptures does not rule out the use of Christian tradition or reflection on broader human experience (see below), but it insists that all other claims to authority must be judged by the primary authority of the Bible.
Unity of the Bible
Articles 6; cf. UM Confession 4
The Articles of Religion state that the Old Testament stands in continuity with the New Testament, since the one God offers salvation through Christ in both testaments (Article 6). Underlying this teaching as well as the teaching of the sufficiency and primacy of Scripture is a belief in the unity of the Bible, that is, the belief that the Bible tells a single story that focuses on the salvation offered through Christ. Susanna and John Wesley spoke of "the analogy of faith" that is the core message of the whole Bible telling the story of salvation.
UM "Theological Task"
Our historic teaching about the unity of the Bible may appear to be contradicted by more recent biblical scholarship that emphasizes the diversity of voices and perspectives in biblical literature. Methodist scholars have generally embraced this biblical scholarship, but Methodist doctrine insists that underlying the diversity of voices in the Bible is a divinely given message, at the center of which is our Savior. The UM statement of "Our Theological Task" (as revised in 1988) acknowledges explicitly "a variety of diverse traditions, some of which reflect tensions in interpretation within the early Judeo-Christian heritage." But it goes on to claim that "these traditions are woven together in the Bible in a manner that expresses the fundamental unity of God's revelation."
Tradition
Articles 14-16; cf. AME "Apostolic Succession and Religious Formalism"
The God revealed in the Bible has continued to act, even after the age of the apostles. Tradition does not mean everything that happened in the past, but the past that we value or treasure, especially the past in which we see God's work. In affirming and valuing the past, we affirm that God's presence did not retreat after the time of the New Testament. We affirm that God has been active through the history of the Christian community. We value in the past those times when we perceived God's presence most clearly. Methodist doctrine does share the Reformation's suspicion that much in the Christian past amounted to a corruption of God's plan: our fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth Articles of Religion condemn teachings and practices that the Reformation judged to be corrupt. Similarly, the AME statement on "Apostolic Succession and Religious Formalism" rejects as later corruptions the teaching that all bishops must stand in an unbroken succession from the apostles, and the "formalism" that often accompanies traditional worship.
But Methodists do rejoice in God's presence in the long history of the Christian tradition: in affirming ancient creeds such as the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed, we unite our voices with the voices of our Christian forebears. Our worship bears the marks of ancient and medieval Christian liturgy. Methodist hymnals now include a variety of voices from the Christian past, including texts and tunes from Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, as well as from a variety of Protestant traditions. At a special called General Conference in 1970, the UMC adopted a resolution (reaffirmed in 1996) clarifying that the anti-Catholic statements in our Articles are not directed toward contemporary Catholicism or the whole of the Catholic inheritance of faith, but rather against medieval corruptions of Christian tradition, some of which were misunderstood by the Reformers. The UM statement of "Our Theological Task" affirms the critical use of Christian traditions as a source and criterion of Christian teaching.
Reason and Experience
UM "Theological Task"
The same UM statement affirms the use of reason and experience as sources and criteria of Christian teaching. Reason refers to the many ways in which human beings reflect on the world, both as individuals and as communities. John Wesley believed that reason guided by the grace available to all persons could discern the existence of God and the need for moral responsibility; it could even illuminate the meaning of the Bible. Wesley valued experience especially as human contact with God, and he...
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