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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...

help to understand what went on in Luther’s life from the time he began teaching scripture in Wittenberg through 1519, and they help form the foundations of his ecclesiology. A first transition consisted in a theological transformation of his experience that raised it to a new level through the mediation of scripture. This transition can be interpreted in different ways. But in fact Luther loved scripture early on, perhaps before his becoming an Augustinian, and as he grew more expert in it and received
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