How about this at General Convention?

Christopher proposes something along these lines be promulgated by the next General Convention.  I say, "Amen."  Christopher writes:

Draft: Comprehensiveness in Generous Catholicity: A Commendation to this Church in Preparation for the 76th General Convention

Preamble

Appreciative of the core doctrines of our faith, Incarnation and Trinity, as Charles Gore so succinctly summed them a century past, we are reminded that these teachings point not to themselves but refer us to and lead us into living relationship with the Persons of the Triune and Living God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We desire to commend to this Church anew those signs that we do share across program and party and school if we would call ourselves catholic and Anglican.

Therefore, rather than a program for persuading the Church to a particular point of view on matters of justice or on matters of ecclesiology, we recognize that our unity is founded in and maintained by Jesus Christ through Whom in the Holy Spirit we are all children of a merciful Father. Our unity is neither founded in a program for or preaching of earthly renewal important as this is, nor a scheme for or theory of churchly organization as necessary as this be, but rather in our incorporation into this self-same Jesus by Holy Baptism. In the words of F.D. Maurice, noting conditions similar wracking the Church of his own day, “And those who are sighing over the condition of the Church, and have tried scheme after scheme for reforming it and bringing back its unity, and have found only fresh disappointments and despondency, will learn that they may go back to the one source of Reformation and Restoration; to Him who is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.”

To this end, we commend anew to this Church those catholic signs[1] we do share as pointing us to and bearing us forth to the truth of and knowledge of and relationship with the Living God:

- The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, as “containing all things necessary to salvation,” and as being the rule and ultimate standard of faith.

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- The Apostles’ Creed, as the Baptismal Symbol; and the Nicene Creed, as the sufficient statement of the Christian faith.

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Events of these past days have reminded us of our Nicene faith. Many of us will never again say the Creeds lightly or without recognition of this costly inheritance from our ancestors in faith. We commend anew to this Church and do profess our faith as sufficiently stated in the Apostles’ and Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creeds.

We affirm the use of the Apostles' Creed in our Rite of Holy Baptism as appointed in our Prayer Book and the saying or singing of the Nicene Creed at every principle Sunday Holy Communion as required by our canons.

-The two Sacraments ordained by Christ Himself — Baptism and the Supper of the Lord — ministered with unfailing use of Christ's Words of Institution, and of the elements ordained by Him.

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-The Historic Episcopate, locally adapted in the methods of its administration to the varying needs of the nations and peoples called of God into the Unity of His Church.

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As heirs to the apostles and guardians of the faith once delivered, we affirm the desire of our bishops to uphold the "doctrine, discipline, and worship" of this Church.

-The Book of Common Prayer as authorized in this Church as the normative standard of worship in this Church.[2]

As the rule of our belief set in prayers inherited and shaped by a comprehensiveness borne of the struggles, thought, and faith of our ancestors in faith, we commend the use of our authorized Prayer Book throughout this Church with particular encouragement to maintain consistent use of those prayers as provided for our central rites: Holy Baptism and Holy Communion.

In a Church hungry for spiritual blessings and richness of prayer life, we commend the rites of Morning and Evening Prayer as generously set out and well appointed in the Prayer Book. And further, encourage their daily public praying in every parish of every diocese throughout this Church.

-Service of our neighbors’ and the world’s needs in proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ…[3]

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The apostolic and primitive Church made the concerns of the world their own. This emphasis, though changed, has never been lost to the Church, for it is the concern of Jesus Christ who calls us into being and sustains us as His Body. In a world hungry for signs of God’s love, our Church rooted in its core faith, engaged in its central practices, and turned to the world’s needs in proclamation of the gospel, shall be set free from our ecclesial preoccupations.


The undersigned