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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...

a proud challenge to other churches, but only a special obligation—in humility—to one’s own church.60 The statements of the Church about fullness and catholicity may never let her forget the gap between pretension and reality. True catholicity “is a grace given to the Church and constantly renewed by its Lord.”61 And therefore, it asks for continuing prayer. This approach to catholicity undeniably shows strong kinship to the Reformed confession of catholicity. What is presently called the dynamic
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