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The Church as the Missionary Body of Christ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

E. Schweizer
E. Schweizer
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Zürich, Switzerland
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The life or death of a church depends on how much its members are willing to proclaim the gospel to the world. If its ministers are satisfied merely with performing their functions and counselling religious people, if its members confess their faith just as far as it is socially acceptable, the church will grow more and more into a sterile institution that is far from the living church of the New Testament. The purpose of this study is therefore to ask what connexion may exist between the church and its mission to the world in both the generally accepted and in the disputed letters of Paul.

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New Testament Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , October 1961 , pp. 1 - 11
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

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1 The form of this lecture delivered at Durham, Edinburgh, St Andrews and Cambridge in March 1961, remains unchanged. I therefore did not supply it with additional footnotes. For parts II and III they may be found in my article soma in Kittel, G. and Friedrich, G., Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament, for part III also in my article ‘Die Kirche als Leib Christi in den paulinischen Antilegomena’, in Theologische Literaturzeitung (1961), pp. 241 ff.Google Scholar For part 1 I learned most from Schlatter, A., Gottes Gerechtigkeit (1935) and from occasional discussion with E.Kälsemann whose commentary on the letter to the Romans is eagerly awaited.Google Scholar I did not see, till this essay was completed, the article of Eichholz, G., ‘Der ökumenische und missionarische Horizont der Kirche, eine exegetische Studie zu Röm. I, 8–15’, in Evangelische Theologie(1961), pp. 15–27.Google Scholar