Cambridge Declaration - Definition

The Cambridge Declaration is a statement of faith written in 1996 by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, a group of Calvinist and Reformed Evangelicals who were concerned with the state of the Evangelical movement in America, and throughout the world.

The declaration is a comment on what the Alliance believes to be the erosion of true Christian faith within the Evangelical movement. Namely,

• the replacement of Biblical authority with experience;
• the omission of the Substitutionary atonement of Christ as an essential feature in the preaching of the Gospel;
• the increasing influence of human pragmatism in gaining church members without recourse to God's Grace;
• the increasing belief in the power of human potential to save rather than faith in Christ;
• and the replacement of God-centered worship with human-centered worship.

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Cambridge Declaration

• The text of the Declaration (http://www.reformed.org/documents/cambridge.html)
• "Reformation Societies" that hold to the text (http://admin.starwire.com/CC/article/0,,PTID307086|CHID559376|CIID1861026,00.html)

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