I’ve often thought that the late Professor Kurt Marquart’s discussion of the one divine office and auxiliary offices in his book The Church: Her Fellowship, Ministry, and Governance (Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics, vol. IX, pp142f) is the most excellent explanation I’ve encountered: [The office of school-teacher] belongs … to the “offices of parents” to see to [...]
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