PART TWO - Introduction of The Creedal Imperative by Carl R. Truman with Pastor William Shifflett
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What is a Creed? What is a Confession?
Dr. Truman: “Creeds and confessions are vital to the present and future well-being of the church.” Does his claim not strike at the very heart of the notion of Scripture alone?
Does it not place him in jeopardy of regarding both Scripture and something outside Scripture, some tradition, as being of coordinate and potentially equal authority?
Is there not a danger that commitment to time-bound creeds and confessions might well doom the church to irrelevance in the modern world?
Carl Truman is a professor at a confessional Presbyterian seminary, Westminster in Philadelphia, and a minister in a confessional Presbyterian denomination, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
What does it mean to be Presbyterian?
What does it mean to be confessional?
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Is there not a danger of the tail wagging the dog, by treating the summary of Scripture by which we read Scripture?
Dr. Truman: “The fact that I am a confessional Christian places me at odds with the vast majority of evangelical Christians today.” Do you agree?
Some churches have “Statements of faith”. What is the difference between a statement of faith and a creed or confession?
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Scripture alone is the sole authority, correct?
Of what use therefore are further documents?
How can one ever claim such documents have authority without thus derogating from the authority of Scripture?
Dr Truman: “Christians are not divided between those who have creeds and confessions and those who do not.” Do you agree?
Public and unwritten creeds.
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