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John Colwell presents a robust sacramental theology for Protestant churches. He maintains that a doctrine of the Trinity leads us to conceive of God’s gracious engagement with his creation as one that is mediated through that creation. And this lies at the foundation for an understanding of the sacraments. Colwell further argues that the Church and Scripture confer context, definition, and...

rather negative and disparate book. I attempt rather to begin more traditionally with Scripture and the development of Christian doctrine with the aim of identifying key themes in a Christian understanding of God that should inform, not just our understanding of ministry and sacrament, but more fundamentally our understanding of God and of God’s relatedness to the world. To anticipate and to summarise, I maintain that God as narrated in the gospel story is one who promises to mediate his presence
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