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In After Our Likeness, the inaugural volume in the Sacra Doctrina series, Miroslav Volf explores the relationship between persons and community in Christian theology. The focus is the community of grace, the Christian church. The point of departure is the thought of the first Baptist, John Smyth, and the notion of church as “gathered community” that he shared with Radical Reformers. Volf seeks to...

Ignatius obviously bases his own ecclesiological principle (ὅπου ἂν ᾖ Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, ἐκεῖ ἡ καθολικὴ ἐκκλησία, “Wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the universal church”33) on Matt. 18:20. Tertullian explicitly specifies two or three who are gathered together in Christ’s name: The Ignatian ubi Christus, ibi ecclesia (“Where Christ is, there is the church”) finds its correspondence in Tertullian’s ubi tres, ecclesia est (“Where three are, the church is”).34 Even Cyprian, who in De
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