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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...

Circumcision was given as a sign of lack of confidence, of disbelief, of lack of trust in the power of flesh. Circumcision actually presents that in its actual physical form. Circumcision is a removal of flesh from a young Israelite infant boy. It’s the removal of flesh from the infant’s penis, which is his organ of procreation. It’s a sign that he shouldn’t trust in his flesh, he shouldn’t trust in his own powers, in his own fertility to see God’s promise realized. Circumcision imposed a particular
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