What is it about?
This book review examines Cheryl Peterson's view of understanding today's Church from a Lutheran perspective. Richard Penaskovic sums up Peterson's view of the Church and suggests that we take into consideration the work of a German, Roman Catholic theologian, Heribert Muehlen. Muehlen understands the Church as "One Person, namely, the Holy Spirit present in billions of human persons at the same time. Hence the Church is synonymous with the mystery of grace. In this context a "mystery" is a truth we cannot fully understand.
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Why is it important?
My work sheds light on the deep mystery that is the Church. Muehlen's work dealing with the Church is not known by many theologians because he wrote in German and his main work called Una Mystica Persona has not been translated into English.
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Richard Penaskovic
Auburn University
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This page is a summary of: Who Is The Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century, written by Cheryl M. Peterson, Ecclesiology, October 2016, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/17455316-01203015.
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