Nicholas M. Healy teaches at St. John’s University in New York and is author of Church, World and the Christian Life: Practical-Prophetic Ecclesiology.
Why there is no Christian ‘community’
The church is not an ark floating on the top of the waters. It lives and breathes within the waters.
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