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The Sacraments is the tenth work to appear in the American edition of Berkouwer's monumental Studies in Dogmatics. In it, the author examines, explicates and defends the Reformed teaching on the sacraments in the light of the Word of God and church theology. In the process, Berkouwer discusses and evaluates the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and various contemporary views of the sacraments.

This echo does not set forth a contrast between natural and spiritual, but presents an outlook on the fulfilment of circumcision in which the old is truly fulfilled in the new. When the question arises what the advantage is of the Jew, and what is the profit of circumcision, Paul’s answer is: “Much every way … they were intrusted with the oracles of God” (Rom. 3:2), and—as he writes later—“[theirs] is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God,
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