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Title: Popular approach, but not Biblically supported!
Review: Koivisto has spent time looking into this difficult topic of Christian fellowship. Sounds so modern to look for a core, a common denominator to sort out all the multitudes of Christian voices on this doctrine and that. Although he unsuccessfully attempts to refute Sasse's valid historical view that there never has been a golden time of unity in the church, he proceeds to find a core orthodoxy which achieves this minimal threshold of God-pleasing belief. Returning to Vincent of Lerins and others, he feels this is it. However, he makes no effort to refute the Bibical admonition to find such unity in all of God's words, e.g. John 17 and Mt. 28:20. To read another opinion, try The Church, by Kurt Marquart.
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