We both uphold the reality of the Church as the Body of Christ, the sure means of access to salvation without denying the possibility of salvation by other less certain means. We both celebrate the saints as living icons of God's redemptive power. We both rejoice in Mary as the Mother of God, recognising that the refusal to ascribe this title to her reflects a continuing Nestorian Christology amongst some Christians. We both assert that redemption is a renewal of creation and not simply or only a matter of human regeneration. We both assert that salvation having been secured by God in Christ is in its application in human life a process and not merely a forensically applied past event.
Salvation requires a growth in holiness to make it complete.
We both assert that the gospel has profound social and political implications but only by preserving the Church's distinction from worldliness and carnal power so she can be a prophetic voice in the world. We both affirm the role of monasticism in maintaining that distinction and witness. We both assert that the only Head of the Church is our Lord and God and Saviour, Jesus Christ and that the Holy Spirit alone is the Church's Guide, Inspiration and Strengthener. We both celebrate the unfettered and universal priesthood of all believers, believing that each man and woman has a ministry to fulfil by virtue of his or her baptism. We both believe that the believer can know God personally and in the most intimate manner, and in this knowing, the believer becomes mystically joined to and transformed by the Holy Trinity.