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"Like Living Stones"zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaYWVUTSRPONMLKJIHGFEDCBALWF Studies, 2010

edited by Hans-Peter Grosshans and Martin L. Sinaga

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"Like living stones" : Lut heran reflections on the one holy, catholic, and apostolic

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I. Church--Marks.2. Lutheran Church--Doctrines. I. Grosshans. Hans-Peter. II.

Sinaga, Martin L. III. Lutheran World Federation. 1\'. Title: Lutheran reflections on

the one holy, catholic, and apostolic church.

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5 IntroductionyxwvutsrponmlkjihgfedcbaZWTSPOMLKJIHGFEDCBA

Martin Sinaga

II Introducing the Theme: The One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic

Church as Realized in Lutheran Churches

Hans-Peter Grosehans

21 Confessing and Living out Unity from a Lutheran Perspective:

Old and New Challenges

Dagmar Heller

39 The Making of Differences: Theological Discourse on the

Unity of the ChurchzwutsrqonmlkihgfedcbaZYWTRMKIGED

Guillermo Hansen

59 One Body In Christ? Eccleslology and Ministry between Good

Theology and Bad Anthropology

Else Marie Wiber-g Pedersen

83 The Unity of Protestant Churches In Europeand the

Compatibility of Ecumenical Agreements: The Community of

Protestant Churches in Europe as an Ecumenical Model for

Communion

Stephanie Dietrich

95 The Holiness of the Sinner-the Credibility of the Church

Eckhartl. Zemmricti

103 Holiness and Reconciliation: The Challenge of an Eccleslology

of Reconciliation

Binsar Pakpahan

III A Cultural Hermeneutical Reflection on the Lutheran

Understanding of the Church's Holiness

ThuEn Yu

4 Like LIV '"Ig Stones"zyvutsrponmlkihgfedcbaWUTSRPOMLIHGFEDCBA

123 The Holy Spirit and the Holiness of the ChurchzwutsrqonmlkihgfedcbaZYWTRMKIGED

Yonas Yigezu Dibisa

133 A Community of Faith and Love: A Lutheran Perspective on the

Catholicity of the Church

Tomi KaTI tunen

149 Lutheran Catholicity in Worship: The Evangelical Lutheran

Church In Tanzania

Elieshi Munqure

159 Apostolicity

Milos Kldtik

167 On the Way to a Common Understanding of the Church's

Apostolicity in the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue

Theodor Dieter

177 Mission as Com-passion

Roberto E. Zwelsch

191 The Church-Opium of God's People?

WaiMan Yuen

203 Contributors