The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from …

Stanley Hauerwas
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The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints. ✨ Stanley Hauerwas (1995). In Good Company: The Church as Polis, p.139, University of Notre Dame Pess
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