Christian Community in History, Volume 2: Comparative Ecclesiology (Biblia.com)

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Roger D. Haight’s “ecclesiology from below,” moves through the actual church of history to ecclesiology or to an understanding of the church both as it is and as it should be. In volume 2 of Haight’s series, Comparative Ecclesiology, ecclesiology itself becomes directly the subject matter of the book, without losing sight of concrete history and the degree to which these ecclesiologies are...

center of sacramental piety. The church proved itself “in the ‘communication of grace’: the sacraments in general, and the ‘sacrifice’ of the mass, with its benefits for the souls of the living and the dead, in particular” (EC, 90). This yearly cycle was wrapped in a larger worldview in which human beings were born into sin, baptized into grace, and died into punishment in purgatory before final salvation in heaven.6 For the Reformation to take hold, this worldview and the role of the church in it

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