Barnabas Aspray

This is a column laden with shame – my shame. It’s about how lazy and complacent I’ve been in my attitude to Jews, or “my Jewish friends” as liberal progressives like me might put it to show that I’m on their side, really. And, to get it all out to begin with, I’m quite willing to accept that I may be shame-signalling here, which must be a version of virtue-signalling that suggests that I’m better than your average antisemite because I feel ashamed about it.

Last year at the annual Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, a motion was put forward to add the Nicene Creed to its doctrinal statement. The motion failed because it did not achieve the necessary two-thirds majority in the vote and so the Creed was not added to the Southern Baptists’ statement of faith. I learned a lot from following these proceedings.

Can the Creed Be Proven from Scripture? Implications for Ecumenical Dialogue Last year at the annual Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, a motion was put forward to add the Nicene Creed to its doctrinal statement.[1. Mark Wingfield, “Motion will ask SBC to add … [Read more...] Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Arianism, Council of Nicaea, Ecumenism, faith and reason, Hypostatic Union, Nicene Creed, Scripture and Tradition