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Sacramental theology has to be understood in the context of ecclesiology, in the context of the doctrine of the church. That’s not always the way that sacramental theology has been understood. Many of the debates about the Lord’s Supper, for example, seem to be based on a forgetfulness that the Church is present at the Lord’s Supper. The debates have been about the mode of Jesus’ presence in the...

A sacrament is not something to be seen and to be understood and interpreted, but something that is to be practiced. And using the word “sign” will sometimes mislead us into thinking it’s just there to be viewed. Many Christians have described sacraments as visible signs of invisible grace. This captures a certain reality of the sacrament, of sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, but this too I think can be misleading. I think we have to pay more attention to the visible qualities of the sacraments,
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