The Church: Sacraments, Worship, Ministry, Mission (Biblia.com)

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In this volume, Donald Bloesch explores with charity and balance the contours of ecclesiology. He forthrightly takes up the most controversial of issues ranging from matters of church authority, the sacraments and worship, the church’s place in the plan of salvation, the church and the kingdom of God, to the issue of church reunion. Evangelical in spirit, ecumenical in breadth and biblical in...

bringing purification and regeneration. Diadochus of Photica (fifth century) declared, “Through the medium of water, under the action of the Spirit who is holy and who gives life, we have in consequence become regenerate; we have been purified both in Body and soul.”3 Augustine’s theology of the sacraments has special significance in the development of the life and thought of the church. It was Augustine who defined a sacrament as “a visible sign of an invisible grace.” A sacrament has two sides

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