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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...

what was taken at least by Zwingli22 and Calvin23 as a definitive Anabaptist confession, is an explicitly and radically separatist understanding of the Church: the Church is separated from the world through baptism as a mark of the faith of those baptised; the Church is further marked by an active and radical separation from everything that is characteristic of the world (taken here to be inherently and radically evil); the Church, therefore, is separated from the structures and commitments of
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