What is Anglicanism?

What we Believe

As a Parish within the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina, we ascribe to the following as our core doctrine:

A belief in the Triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; three distinct persons co-equal in glory and

co-eternal in majesty and of one substantial Godhead, such that there are not three gods but one God.

A belief in the Holy Scriptures as divine revelation, trustworthy, carrying the full measure of His authority, containing all

things necessary to salvation, and to be submitted to in all matters of faith and practice of life.

A belief in the One Savior of mankind, Jesus Christ, who in His person is both fully God and fully man; of one substance

with the Father as regards His Godhead, and at the same time of one substance with us as regards His manhood.

A belief in the perfect obedience of Christ; His true and actual suffering, His substitutionary and atoning death on the

cross, and His bodily resurrection and ascension as the only means given for our salvation and reconciliation with God.

A belief in faith alone as the only grounds for the merits of Christ being imputed to us for our justification before God

(justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone), leading to good works empowered by the Holy Spirit.

A belief in the consummate return of Jesus Christ in glory to judge the living and the dead, and a belief in the bodily

resurrection of the dead and their entrance into either eternal damnation or everlasting blessedness.

A belief in the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church as those souls that have been redeemed entirely by the work of

Christ and called out of bondage into freedom, out of darkness into light, out of error into truth, out of death into eternal

life.

A belief that historic Anglican polity organizes the visible Church under the offices of Bishop, Presbyter and Deacon.

Furthermore, the Church exists to worship the Triune God and to lift up the Savior Jesus Christ before all people through

the faithful preaching and teaching of the Gospel, through prayer, and through the faithful administration of the sacraments of

Baptism and the Lord’s Supper (Holy Communion or the Eucharist.)

A belief in the Nicene and Apostles’ creeds as accurate representations of the essence of the Christian faith, and

affirmation of the (39) Articles of Religion as a coherent and concise expression of Anglican doctrine.

Further; We believe Christians are called beyond mere membership to the lifelong journey of discipleship, learning to

faithfully live what God has revealed about us. (Matthew 7:24-29, Mark 8:34-36, Galatians 5:22)

Finally; This statement of faith does not exhaust the extent of our beliefs. The Bible is the trustworthy Word of God that

speaks with final authority concerning truth, morality, and the proper conduct of humankind. For purposes of The Anglican

Diocese of South Carolina’s faith, doctrine, practice, policy, and discipline, our Bishop is this Diocese’s final interpretive

authority on matters of doctrine and their application.