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While Barclay’s theology of the Lord’s Supper has been found wanting by some academics, considerable personal correspondence and requests to use the liturgy contained in this book shows that once again, for the ordinary reader, the author has managed to bring new meaning to what he claims has woefully become “a ritual rather than a reality.”

IN his posthumous volume The Theology of the Sacraments, Donald Baillie quotes a saying of Tillich to the effect that we are living in an age of the Church in which we are threatened with ‘the death of the sacraments’.1 This may well be so. Even if the sacraments are celebrated as often as ever, it may still be true that they are becoming stranger and stranger, and less and less meaningful to those who share in them. The sacraments are still built into the structure
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