Faith in the Church of England

In considering first the Second Part of the Report on Doctrine in the Church of England, we have deliberately postponed consideration of those sections which have aroused most discussion and which would seem to indicate trends and tendencies very different from those in the section on The Church and Sacraments. Before trying to form an estimate of the significance of the whole from the standpoint of those concerned with the fidelity of the Christian witness and with the prospects of Christian unity, we may, without attempting a full analysis, draw attention to some salient points raised in these other sections.The first of the three main divisions of the Report covers The Doctrines of God and of Redemption. Herein the doctrine of the Triune God is confined within a page and a half, not of dogmatic or theological exposition, but of pure history of dogma. The question What do we mean by the word "God"? is answered exclusively in terms of purely natural theology without reference to Revelation; but it is found subsequently that the "Biblical conception [of the 'Living God'] is greatly to be preferred," for purely pragmatic reasons, to "the leading conceptions entertained by Greek philosophers and Indian sages

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