Pick your poison
All the reformers (Luther, Calvin, Bucer, Cranmer, & Zwingli) agreed that the visible church was wherever the word of God was purely preached, the sacraments rightly administered (and for Calvin, church discipline rightly applied).
However, if you were to ask any one of them what they MEAN by that definition you would get 5 DIFFERENT answers…
And so it is…
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Categories: Catholicity, Reformation Sunday, Theologia
Actually the thing about Discipline was John Knox, not so much Calvin… but he would have added if he’d thought about it.
Personally I think they would have also agreed the church was present wherever jello salad with fruit cocktail is served too.
Alan