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Word, Spirit, and Dry Bones

by | Jan 28, 2011 | Bible, Books, Church, Preaching, Theology, Worship

In a previous post, I quoted Charles Hodge’s argument that the Spirit of God alone gives efficacy to the Word and to the sacraments: There is, therefore, a strict analogy, according to the Reformed doctrine, between the Word and the sacraments as a means of...

On the Efficacy of the Sacraments

by | Jan 22, 2011 | Books, Church, Theology, Worship

I have been studying up on the sacraments for ordination exams, and, in Charles Hodge’s Systematic Theology, I came across an interesting contrast between how Lutheran and Reformed Christians understand the efficacy of the sacraments that I did not previously...

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