A bit more information about Saint Luke's
Saint Luke's Reformed Episcopal Church is an evangelical Anglican church in the great reformed catholic tradition of the sixteenth century English Reformation inaugurated by the theological and liturgical reforms of the martyr-bishops Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley , and Hugh Latimer , and subsequently developed by such learned and godly divines as John Jewel, Richard Hooker , Richard Field, Lancelot Andrewes , John Bramhall, and John Cosin.
As an Anglican church, the boundaries of our biblical and catholic faith may be summarized thus:
- We believe one canon of Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testaments; the inerrant, infallible, and inspired Word of God containing all things necessary unto salvation, as the final and supreme authority for faith and practice.
- We believe the three creeds of the ancient, undivided Church: the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Creed of Athanasius.
- We believe the dogmas of the first four ecumenical councils of Nicaea, Constantinople 1, Ephesus, and Chalcedon.
- We look to the normative example of the life and worship of the Church in her first five centuries.
- We believe the doctrines of the English Reformation as they are set forth in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion and in the formularies of the Book of Common Prayer.
As Anglicans, we hold a high view of the corporate worship of the Holy, Blessed, and Undivided Trinity. Therefore, we worship according to the ancient tradition of liturgical common prayer as it has been appropriated in the reformed catholic offices contained in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; maintaining the legacy of biblical and patristically based worship used by Anglican Christians for over 450 years, wherein the pure Word of God is faithfully preached, read, prayed, and sung, and God's holy sacraments are rightly and duly administered.
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