ABSTRACT
The fourth volume of Earth's Church Dogmatics addressing the doctrine of reconciliation is the locus of Earth's most developed doctrine of the church. While Earth's mature ecclesiology is deeply influenced and shaped by Christology, the doctrine of the church itself falls under the subjective side of the work of atonement and therefore belongs to the third article of the creed as a doctrine of the Holy Spirit.1 Earth states:
The particular problem involved might be described as the subjective realisation of the atonement. The one reality of the atonement has both an objective and a subjective side in so far as — we cannot separate but we must not confuse the two — it is both a divine act and offer and also an active human participation in it: the unique history of Jesus Christ; but enclosed and exemplified in this the history of many other men of many other ages (CD IK 1,643).
