num_pages: 312
description: This important document proposes important new clarifications and pastoral steps that will serve the pilgrimage toward full unity. It provides the biblical, historical and theological foundations for a common Catholic-Lutheran understanding of the Church. The text carefully links the biblical doctrine of justification to the development of the Church in the New Testament as a community of salvation; whose structures and ministries serve the Church's mission to the human family. A detailed exposition is given to the development of the ministries and structures in the councils, dioceses, parishes, bishops, presbyters, and the Petrine ministry.
language: English
title: The Church as Koinonia of Salvation: It's Structures and Ministries
titlecomplete: The Church as Koinonia of Salvation: It's Structures and Ministries (Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue, X)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: US Conference of Catholic Bishops