Views During The Time of the Reformation (45): Views on the Church: The Protestant View

In our preceding article we called attention to the Reformed view of the church with respect to the church's visibility and invisibility. This Reformed position identifies the church invisible with the elect and the church visible with the appearance of the church in the midst of the world as consisting of both elect and reprobate. This view, we noted, is maintained by both Ursinus and Calvin. The church, therefore, could be called invisible in a three-fold sense of the word. First, the church...