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The Communion of Saints: A Study of the Origin and Development of Luther’s Doctrine of the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this text, Herman Amberg Preus presents the case that Christian churches, divided and scattered over the earth, need to rediscover that there is one catholic and apostolic Church, the Communion of Saints. Growing up in a generation that struggled to find its way back to this Scriptural Doctrine of the Church, he argues that the solution is to be found in the theology of Luther and the...

a state of grace. Hence in it we are bound around and upheld by the grace of God which is in Christ Jesus. Of the same nature and a vital part of this communion with Christ is the experience of the Communion of Saints. At the risk of being misunderstood, we might also reverse that and say that the experience of Christ is the vital part of the experience of the Communion of Saints. For as Luther says, “In this Christian Church He daily and richly forgives me and all believers all our sins.” In other
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