Calvin defines the sacraments as "outward signs". One of the most striking things about the Supper, however, is that the bread and...

If we are going to say that the sacraments are Visible "Words" we will want to think long and hard about what words are.

James Philip called death the sacrament of sin.

Revd Douglas Wilson writes : There are two sacraments, true, but there is only one sacramental. The world is a sacramental, and everything ...

It seems to me that Calvin's description of the purpose of the sacraments could pretty much be applied to the purpose of the Bible too. ...

In the Institutes , Calvin classifies the sacraments as among “the external means or aids by which God invites us into the society of Chri...

Note to self: it might be worth thinking about the relationship between Word and Sacrament in a Brethren context. Malcolm Maclean describes ...

From T H L Parker, John Calvin (1975): The sole office of the sacraments is to turn our eyes to beholding God’s promises; that is,...

I’ve been reading Mathison’s account of Nevin’s attacks on what Nevin calls “the modern Puritan theory of the sacraments” (which he associ...

Its amazing to us, is it not, that Calvin could say that "the sacraments bring the clearest promises" of God? He adds that "t...

Some evangelicals sometimes speak of baptism as if it were just getting wet. Calvin would not have agreed. In the Catechism of the Church of...

Calvin gives us an important principle that we can use when considering the oft-made claim that everything is somehow 'sacramental'....

Zachman comments that “… in the third edition of the Institutes of 1543, Calvin completely changes his position in the symbol of the layi...

From Zachman's Conclusion: Far from replacing images with words, Calvin combines image and word in all aspects of our lives with God...

More Zachman: The laying on of hands, which Calvin causticly dismissed in 1536 as Rome’s “aping” of the apostles, is described as a sacramen...

Here's another slice of Zachman on Calvin: The covenant with Abraham, and the renewal of that covenant in the Law of Moses, is confi...

I'm frequently coming across things that might just be relevant to the great thesis. Today someone kindly suggested the work of David Br...

Randall C. Zachman writes: This metaphor [of the heavens preaching from Ps 19] recalls Calvin’s fondness for Augustine’s dictum that the ...

From Randall C. Zachman: “ Dawn de Vries con curs with this description, stating that the Word itself is sacramental – that is, the...

In thinking about the relationship between word and sacrament, it is a new thought to me that it might be argued on the basis of the Johanni...