The Deposit of Faith

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Consider the words of Metropolitan Kirill one of the Patriarchs of Russia which came out of the November 2017 joint meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury in Moscow.  
“There is an expulsion of God from human life, ignoring the Divine moral law. And especially devastating is the fact that ignoring the Divine moral law is clothed in the form of state law. This is a very dangerous trend. If people force the state law to try to commit a sin or to associate themselves with sin, then we will enter into some kind of apocalyptic reality.” 
This 'Apocalyptic reality' was strangely absent from the official Anglican press releases on the visit.  Were the Patriarch's strong words of concern not deemed politically correct for our home readership? 
The battle lines are ideological when it comes to secularisation (Ephesians 6.12). It is a battle of ideas, a fight for the base code of what it means to be human and to exist in Christian civilization.

I think there is now, more than any other age, a need for Catholics (ie. traditional liturgical churches) and evangelicals to develop and articulate the idea and reality of the Deposit of Faith. This would be our only hope of a pincer movement against militant secularism.

Post-Liberal theology I find very helpful in this, as also the works of CS Lewis. Here, the Bible can be seen as the grammar of our faith, the tradition with a capital 'T', marrying two aspects of Nicean orthodoxy, tradition and scripture. It also helps define how episcopal ministry is a servant to the truth and not the other way around. In this respect, the Petrine ministry, the Papacy, has the potential to serve both Catholics and evangelicals in a global context by saying 'this or that is not in the deposit faith and is, therefore, an attack on the Church of God.' I wonder if we have the courage as churches to explore this?

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