Yet in the setting in which the sermon was delivered, there may also have been a large proportion of those whose vision of the church reached hardly at all beyond the institution itself. (religion-online.org)
As visible signs of God's love and forgiveness, baptism and the Supper can extend the horizons of believers from limited visions of the church as local and particular toward a sense that they belong to the whole communion of saints. (religion-online.org)
The Catholicity of the Reformation Edited by Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson Eerdmans, 112 pages, $ 12 Two visions of the Church struggle for dominance in contemporary American Protestantism. (firstthings.com)