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Through the years, unity and universality, holiness and faithfulness to the apostolic tradition have not been overwhelmingly obvious as attributes of the Church. G. C. Berkouwer is not content to take the easy out and explain these shortcomings as though what has traditionally been confessed about the Church refers only to an ideal, not the actual Church in its historical manifestations. On the...

complications of her history. We are thinking especially of those ancient words in the credo that are usually called the attributes of the Church: unity and catholicity, apostolicity and holiness. We can hardly interpret the terminological consensus here—the same words have been used throughout all ages—other than as a reference to wonderful riches and unprecedented perspectives. The formulation is so exuberant that one may wonder whether this is not some idealistic, romantic picture of the Church,
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