"Toward Full Communion" and "Concordat of Agreement": Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogue, Series III - Softcover

9781579107468: "Toward Full Communion" and "Concordat of Agreement": Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogue, Series III

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ISBN 10: 157910746X ISBN 13: 9781579107468

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2001

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"Toward Full Communion" and "Concordat of Agreement," the final report of Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogue III.

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We agree that the identity of our gospel with the apostles' Gospel, and of our church with the apostles' church, is the personal identity of the risen Christ; He is always the one crucified under Pontius Pilate and just so the one whose word is new promise in every new historical occasion. The church is able to remain in conversation with this one Lord, and so to remain itself through the opportunities and temptations of its history, by the mediation of the whole continuous tradition of the Gospel in word and sacrament. The church has, within the providence of God, enacted its responsibility that this succession shall be a succession of the Gospel , by the means of a canon of Scripture, the use and authority of creeds and confessions, sacramental-liturgical tradition, and the institution of an ordered ministry and succession of ministers.

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