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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...

Many protestants define sacraments as things to which the word of promise has been added. You have water, but water doesn’t make a sacrament unless the Word of God is added to it. You have bread and wine, but bread and wine don’t make the sacrament the Lord’s Supper until the Word of God and the word of promise is added. It’s certainly true that the Word is essential to our understanding of the sacraments. The word of promise is essential to understanding what’s going on in baptism and what’s going
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