On the Councils and the Church

The late Luther on how you can tell where the church actually is. Sets out the marks of the church (Word, baptism, supper, keys, ministry, prayer, and the cross), which is the nearest thing Lutheranism has to an ecclesiology.

How to get it

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• Buy from the publisher Luther's Works vol. 41, Fortress Press

  The scholarly English edition. Hardback, and priced for libraries rather than readers.

• Find it in a library Find Luther's Works vol. 41 in a library

  Most seminary and many university libraries hold the full set. Interlibrary loan usually reaches it.

• Borrow online Borrow online at the Internet Archive

  Controlled digital lending: one reader at a time, free, with a free account. Not public domain. Borrowed, not downloaded.

• Secondhand Secondhand copies

  Individual volumes turn up used for a fraction of new price, often from clergy estates.