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  • 9 - The Doctrine of the Church

  • from Part III - Doctrine, Liturgy, Rites and Other Faith Communities
  • Edited by Norman Doe, Cardiff University
  • Book:
    A New History of the Church in Wales
    Published online:
    22 February 2020
    Print publication:
    05 March 2020, pp 161-178

  • Summary

    While the Church in Wales still adheres to the pre-disestablishment historic formularies, its doctrine has changed much since 1920. During the first half of the century, it was catholic and conservative. However, when a Doctrinal Commission was established in 1969 there were enough Welsh Anglican theologians to staff it. This impacted on doctrinal development, as did the resurgence of evangelicalism in the 1960s, a decade which also saw the rise of modern theology, new patterns of behaviour, and new attitudes to gender. By the end of the century, new attitudes to sexuality were also evident. These changes were a challenge to the conservative, catholic inheritance of the Church in Wales, and to the evangelical tradition. While controversies about ordaining women are now largely in the past, doctrinal controversy about sexuality shows no sign of abating. The work of the Doctrinal Commission has been welcomed for its comments on ecumenical texts, though in other areas its work has had a mixed history, particularly its relationship with the Bench of Bishops.

  • A promise is a promise: God's covenantal relationship with animals

  • Kris Hiuser, Matthew Barton
  • Journal:
    Scottish Journal of Theology / Volume 67 / Issue 3 / August 2014
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 June 2014, pp. 340-356
    Print publication:
    August 2014

  • The place of the nonhuman animal within Christian doctrine is a topic of increasing interest, as more theologians seek to describe where nonhuman animals fit on the theological stage. One area where there seems great potential, yet which has been relatively untouched, is God's covenantal relationship with nonhuman animals as described within the Bible. This article is an attempt to use the idea of God's covenantal relationship with nonhuman creatures to build a case for understanding them as creatures of value, with a corresponding human calling to treat them in ways suitable to their value. This case is made in two sections. In the first, the fact that God covenants with nonhuman animals, and calls humans into covenant with them, will be shown through examining Genesis 9 and Hosea 2. Given such a reality, what it means to be involved in a covenant will be examined, and ultimately two main implications will be put forward. First, that nonhuman animals are worthy of covenantal care and protection, and second that humans have a calling to exist in a covenantal relationship with them. Following this, this article then turns to its second section, where it examines the ways in which the Christian tradition has (or has not) intentionally chosen to live out such a covenantal theology with nonhuman animals. The doctrines of two contemporary Christian denominations (Anglican and Roman Catholic) as described in significant denominational documents are examined, as are two groups from these respective traditions which choose to pay close attention to the welfare of nonhuman animals to address the manner in which the covenantal relationship shared between human and nonhuman animals is recognised and understood in the church today. While the groups focused on nonhuman animal welfare continually call for the church to recognise the value of all creatures as described in the covenantal relationship all animals are involved in, their respective denominations often fail to live out such ethical implications. In light of the significance of the covenantal relationship, it is suggested that the church is called to engage in deeper acts of moral discernment on matters of animal ethics.

  • 24 - Faith and the intellectuals I

  • from PART VI - THE CHALLENGES TO A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
  • Edited by Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University of London, Walter Simons, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Christianity
    Published online:
    28 March 2010
    Print publication:
    02 July 2009, pp 372-393

  • Summary

    The history of medieval thought could be written in terms of limitations demanded from reason to make room for faith. The church would be depicted as an inherently thought-curbing institute that constantly and efficiently exerted pressure on intellectuals for the defence of orthodoxy. The study of the relationship between faith and reason has been overshadowed by the censorial act of the condemnation of 219 propositions in philosophy and theology by Bishop Stephen Tempier. The condemnation was portrayed as a response to the unbearable challenges to faith posed by the absorption of non-Christian philosophical learning. Jean Buridan alternated his metaphysics to accommodate the separability of accidents dictated by the doctrine of faith. The case of Albert the Great discussion of sodomy is another example of self-censorship that demonstrates the inability or unwillingness of intellectuals to disengage their thought from the constraints of orthodox religion. There were several strategies adopted by different intellectuals to legitimise physiognomy.