The Individual and the Communal 1. Under Authority: The Freedom of the Church Under Christ-Jeremiah Johnson 2. Community and Closure: The Church in the Individual Complaint Psalms-Paul M. C. Elliott 3. The Reception of Luther's Ecclesiology in Contemporary German Dogmatic Theology-Alexander Kupsch The Personal and the Institutional 4. Hermeneutical Considerations in Applying Acts to Ecclesiological Concerns-Mark W. Birkholz 5. The Ministry of the Saints and the Office of the Ministry: Translation and Theology in Ephesians 4:12-James B. Prothro 6. Rightly Called . . . More or Less: A Primer on Medieval Church and Ministry for the Modern Lutheran-Richard J. Serina, Jr. The Particular and the Universal 7. Et Placet Nobis Vetus Partitio Potestatis: The Power of Order and the Power of Jurisdiction in Aquinas and the Augustana-Roy Axel Coats 8. Realizing the Potential of a Confessional Lutheran Ecclesiology: Ernst Kinder on the Church-Jonathan Mumme 9. Are the Marks of the Church Enough to Authenticate Confessional Lutheranism Then and Now?-John J. Bombaro The Ecumenical to the Lutheran 10. The Church: A Body under Law and Gospel-Jakob Rinderknecht 11. Unity and Diversity in Anglican and Lutheran Ecclesiology-Thomas L. Holtzen 12. From an American Geneva: How Confessional Lutherans and Reformed can Mutually Sharpen 'Evangelical' Today-Robbie Crouse Epilogue 13. Confessional Lutheranism in a Post-Constantinian, Postmodern, and Postlocal Context-Jari Kekale About the Contributors
