What is the nature of Christian unity? Is it Sacramental, Organic,Federal, Spiritual? These are questions that demand careful examination whendifferent Christian traditions are drawing closer to one another in a commondesire to heal the divisions that hinder the witness of the Church to theworld. In any attempt to deal with these questions, full weight must be givento the evidence of the New Testament itself: what kind of unity does it reveal?In New Testament Pattern, Jean-Louis Leuba reveals a two-foldframework of unity in the New Testament. One strand - in its witness to Christ,to the Apostles and to the Church - emphasises the institutional, traditionaland particular. The other strand emphasises the personal, dynamic anduniversal. Yet the two strands are actually one. Their unity is morecomprehensive, more creative, than any undifferentiated unity could be, withimportant implications for ecumenism and broader scriptural study.