The Church: God's Gift to the World -- on the Nature and Purpose of the Church (*).

From: International Review of Mission | Date: October 1, 2001| Author: Falconer, Alan D. | Copyright information

ALAN D. FALCONER (**)

Impulses for the study on "The Nature and Purpose of the Church"

In the responses of the churches to the Faith and Order study Baptism, Eucharist, Ministry (BEM), many church commissions detected that there had been an implicit ecclesiology, and called for a more explicit and focused study on the church. (1) While BEM itself had not specifically addressed the nature, purpose or form of the church, affirmations in each section of the stat...

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