All Saints Anglican Church Mission

  What traditional Anglicans believe is quite nicely described by C.S. Lewis as: “Mere Christianity.”  Another way of stating mere Christianity is as the 5th-century Gallic monk and theologian Saint Vincent of Lérins described as “what has been believed everywhere, always and by all.” Nearly 1500 years after St. Vincent, the Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher described believing Anglicans as having “…no doctrine of our own.  We only possess the Catholic (i.e. universal) doctrine of the Catholic Church enshrined in the Catholic Creeds, and these creeds we hold without addition or diminution.”  Traditional Anglicans are not really a “denomination” because we possess no unique doctrines.

To summarize our beliefs further we can go back to the 17th-century Bishop of Chichester, Lancelot Andrewes who described it as easy as  “1, 2, 3, 4, 5” ONE Canon of Scripture with TWO Testaments, whose basic, doctrinal message is summarized in THREE Creeds (Apostles’, Nicene and Athanasian) and in more detail in the decrees and canons of FOUR ecumenical councils [Nicaea (325AD), Constantinople (381AD), Ephesus (431AD) and Chalcedon (451AD)] and by the general developments (e.g., fixed liturgies, threefold ministry, Church Year, Canon Law and so on) of the first FIVE centuries after the Ascension of Christ. Christ-Centered, Biblical, Faithful to the teaching and worship of the historic, Apostolic Church through the ages.