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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...

yourself while your neighbor is dying in spiritual poverty? If you have had a taste of the power of Christ in your life, why do you cut yourself off from the power house, which is the Church? Who wants to be alone in heaven? Nobody. “An eternal happiness, an immeasurable heaven of joy, and only one to enjoy it, only one, even if that one be I myself! No! Alone, I could not be happy.”2 But the forecourts of heaven are opened to us here on earth in the Church of Jesus Christ. “Behold the Church! It
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