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The Cambridge Declaration The Cambridge Declaration According to the web site of the Alliance of
Confessing Evangelicals (
http://www.alliancenet.org ),
"The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals is a broad coalition of evangelical
Christians from various denominations, including Baptist, Congregational
(Independent), Anglican (Episcopal), Presbyterian, Reformed, and Lutheran.
The purpose of the Alliance's existence is to call the Church, amidst a dying
culture, to repent of its worldliness, to recover and confess the truth of
God's Word as did the reformers, and to see that truth embodied in doctrine,
worship, and life." The Alliance "began in 1994 when a group of
leaders met to discuss the decline they were seeing in evangelicalism and ask
whether something might be done to revive the evangelical churches. . . .
The next step was to gather one hundred and twenty evangelical pastors,
teachers, and leaders of parachurch organizations in Cambridge,
Massachusetts (April 1996) to produce the 'Cambridge Declaration.' This
declaration was the product of four days of meetings in which papers were
presented on four subjects: 'Our Dying Culture,' 'The Truths of God's
Word,' 'Repentance, Recovery and Confession,' and 'The Reformation of the
Church in Doctrine, Worship and Life.'" [James Montgomery Boice,
Whatever Happened to the Gospel of Grace?: Rediscovering the Doctrines
that Shook the World, Crossway Books, 2009 [2001], pp. 31-32] The document that came out of the meetings in
Cambridge in 1996 is called the "Cambridge Declaration." It is based on the
five solas of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The document is
a call for a return to the fundamental convictions of the Reformation. To view
a pdf copy of the Cambridge Declaration, click
here.
The Declaration is also on the Alliance web site: click
here
to view the document on the Alliance web site. |