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More light on the Word and Spirit from Berkhof

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

This post is a continuation of On the Efficacy of the Sacraments and Word, Spirit, and Dry Bones, in which I have been trying to get my head around the differences between Lutheran and Reformed understandings of the relationship between the Holy Spirit, the Word of...

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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