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Confessional orthodoxy is essentially the first category. The core beliefs of the Christian faith are those beliefs that are common to Protestants and Roman Catholics, the Eastern Orthodox church and Evangelicals, Lutherans and Anglicans. | Confessional orthodoxy is essentially the first category. The core beliefs of the Christian faith are those beliefs that are common to Protestants and Roman Catholics, the Eastern Orthodox church and Evangelicals, Lutherans and Anglicans. | ||
Central to the gospel are the deity and humanity of Jesus Christ (incarnation) and the atonement (the cross as saving sacrifice for sins). Also included are salvation by grace through faith and Jesus’ and our resurrections by the power of God. These are necessary beliefs, insofar as they are known and understood (however dimly), for being “Christian.” Part and parcel of the gospel is that God has come to us and for us as the Father of Jesus Christ and that Jesus Christ is God and savior and that the Holy Spirit is the personal power and presence of God in resurrection life.<ref>Roger E. Olson, Must You Believe in the Doctrine of the Trinity to Be a Christian?</ref> | |||
==Is confessional orthodoxy all that we need?== | ==Is confessional orthodoxy all that we need?== | ||