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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...

Again, sacraments are not simply things to be looked at, things to be interpreted; they aren’t simply things, but they’re actions. You can have a font full of water and the word of God’s promise spoken over it; that doesn’t make baptism. You can have bread and wine and the word of promise spoken over it; that doesn’t make the Lord’s Supper. To make baptism, you have to do something with the water, and you have to do something with the bread and the wine. You have to pour or sprinkle the water over
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