Editing Infallibility of the Church (section)

==Lutheranism==
[[File:AugsburgConfessionArticle7OftheChurch.jpg|thumb|...one holy Church is to continue forever. The Church is the congregation of saints, in which the Gospel is rightly taught and the Sacraments are rightly administered.
–[[Augsburg Confession]]<ref>[http://www.bookofconcord.org/augsburgconfession.php#article7 Augsburg Confession, Article 7, Of the Church]</ref>]]
Lutheran theology teaches that the Church is indefectible, as with Catholic doctrine.<ref name="TS1979">{{cite journal |title=Teaching Authority and Infallibility in the Church Common Statement |journal=Theological Studies |date=1 March 1979 |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=113–166 |doi=10.1177/004056397904000105 |s2cid=220519207 |language=English |quote=For while Lutherans share with Catholics the conviction that the Church of Christ is indefectible, they regard the maintenance of this indefectibility as the sovereign work of God.}}</ref> Lutheran churches hold that the "maintenance of this indefectibility as the sovereign work of God."<ref name="TS1979"/>