The themes which are already mentioned as themes for further work in the Leuenberg Agreement itself also include “hermeneutical questions concerning the understanding of Scripture, confession of faith, and Church” (LA 39). At present these questions are taking on new significance in the face of various uncertainties: first, in young churches and movements (Pentecostal churches, charismatic movements) there is often a fundamentalist or literal understanding of scripture; secondly, the understanding and significance of the confessions in our churches are defined in different ways. But both the understanding of scripture and the understanding of the confessions are fundamental to the self-understanding of our churches and our Church Fellowship.
The General Assembly recommends to the Council that it should initiate the forming of a doctrinal conversation group “Scripture – Confession – Church.”
It is the aim of the doctrinal conversation group to elaborate a text which considers from a Protestant perspective the understanding of scripture, the hermeneutic of confessions and the relationship between the message and the being of the Church. The text will serve to clarify the ecclesial identity of the CPCE and its positioning in dialogues with other churches.
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