As far as I know, the Anglican church has tried to distance itself from that sort of imagery and concept in
recent doctrinal statements.
Not exact matches
But in
recent years, I have begun looking at something else, which I think displays the soundness of a church or ministry better than
doctrinal statements.
Recent revisions of the Wesleyan Theological Society's
doctrinal statement reveal a «purifying» process that avoids the characteristic expressions of the «inerrancy» position for vocabulary more at home in its prefundamentalist tradition.
Despite how hard I have been on
doctrinal statements in
recent posts, I do think there are several good uses for them.
We are well used to such Evangelicals, sharing with them the
doctrinal and moral essentials of classical Christianity, a commitment to the Augustinian patrimony of the West,
recent remarkable joint
statements on justification, and much common work for the sanctity of life, Biblical standards of sexual morality, social justice, environmental responsibility and world peace.