Towards a Truly Catholic Church: An Ecclesiology for the Third Millennium

How should we understand church? Is it visible or invisible, one or many, local or universal, hierarchical or congregational in its structure, sacramental or biblical in its expression? Different Christians—whether Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, or Evangelical—tend to approach these foundational questions through the lenses of their own histories and traditions. Some place great weight on the Church's Christological foundations, and thus on history. Others place more emphasis on the dynami...