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The Church Reduced

Resident Faculty, Julius J. Kim   |   January 14, 2017   |  Type: WSC Conferences, Is The Reformation Over?

One of the key outcomes of the Protestant Reformation was the recovery of a biblical ecclesiology, or the doctrine of the church. Luther and other Reformers emphasized the priesthood of all believers over and against the hierarchical systems found in the Roman Catholic Church. What Luther could not have expected, however, was that the Protestant church would gradually reduce itself to create “churches” of every stripe and color, where individual authority reigned supreme.

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