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Studies in Dogmatics: The Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

OUR CONVICTION THAT THE PLURAL FOR “Church” is an inner contradiction is confirmed by the numerous characterizations of the Church of Christ in the whole of the New Testament: the one people of God, the temple of the Holy Spirit, the building of God, the flock of the good Shepherd. These images indicate in various ways the one reality of the Church.1 Each image points in the same direction, toward the one mystery of the Church, the origin of which is the love and mercy of
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