The Official Response to Those Who Object to The Manhattan Declaration
by Kathy Brown on January 25th, 2010 | 0 comments
The official response by the authors of the Manhattan Declaration to those who object to it, saying that somehow it endorses the theology of other faith traditions or that it compromises the understanding of the Gospel, is as follows:
There are serious differences between the Catholic, Protestant evangelical and Orthodox traditions on many theological issues and devotional practices. However, none of those differences are alluded to in any way in the Manhattan Declaration, nor do any of the original signers believe they were compromising their respective positions by signing it. The drafting committee was careful to achieve complete harmony of all three traditions—Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant evangelical—on the critical issues addressed in the declaration, and on those issues only. This was accomplished by making sure every assertion in the declaration is rooted in the Holy Scriptures they share in common. In the final analysis, the Manhattan Declaration is simply a declaration of the signers’ common stand on life, marriage, and liberty. To read anything more into it would be contrary to the intention of the drafters and the nearly 150 leaders who signed it originally.There are a whole host of counter-arguments to MacArthur (and others) available through http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/faqs/why-i-signed. One of these is by Dr. Niel Nielson, President of Covenant College on why he almost didn't sign it: http://president.blogs.covenant.edu/2009/12/11/why-i-almost-didnt-sign-the-manhattan-declaration/
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