“The Church in the Power of the Spirit”: Still One of the Best Books on Ecclesiology.

This is Moltmann enaging in the best kind of theology – critique and comfort for the church seeking to be faithful to the triune God of love.

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If the church acquires its existence

through the activity of Christ,

then her characteristics, too,

are characteristics of Christ's activity, first of all.

The acknowledgement of

'the one, holy, catholic, apostolic church'

is acknowledgement of the uniting,

sanctifying, comprehensive and commissioning

Lordship of Christ.

(Jurgen Moltmann, The Church in the Power of the Spirit, London: SCM, 1977) 338.