The Church as Koinonia of Salvation
Author: Randall R. Lee
Publisher: USCCB Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781574556339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important document proposes new clarifications and pastoral steps that will serve the pilgrimage toward full unity. It provides the biblical, historical, and theological foundations for a common Catholic-Lutheran understanding of the church. The text carefully links the biblical doctrine of justification to the development of the church in the New Testament as a community of salvation whose structures and ministries serve the church's mission to the human family. A detailed exposition is given to the development of the ministries and structures in the church: councils, dioceses, parishes, bishops, presbyters, and the Petrine ministry. Book jacket.