Symbolik

work by Möhler

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  • Johann Adam Möhler, detail of a painting by Eduard Istas, c. 1830.
    In Johann Adam Möhler

    …of his outstanding books is Symbolik (“On the Creeds”), first published in 1832. In this work, as in his earlier volume Die Einheit in der Kirche (1825; “Unity in the Church”), Möhler argued that man’s journey to God could be made only in the church founded by Christ. He sympathized…

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