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Ecclesial Belonging as Salvific Praxis: Toward a Concrete Methodist Ecclesiology Cover

Ecclesial Belonging as Salvific Praxis: Toward a Concrete Methodist Ecclesiology

By: Isaac McNish  
Open Access
|Apr 2025

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