Westminster XXVII: Of the Word and Sacraments

1. Sacraments are holy signs and seals of the covenant of grace (Rom. 4:11; Gen. 17:7, 10), immediately instituted by God (Matt 28:19; 1 Cor. 11:23), to represent Christ and His benefits; and to confirm our interest in Him (1 Cor. 10:16; 11:25–26; Gal. 3:27; 17): as also, to put a visible difference between those …

Westminster XXVI: Of the Communion of Saints

1. All saints, that are united to Jesus Christ their Head, by His Spirit, and by faith, have fellowship with Him in His grace, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory (1 John 1:3; Eph. 3:16–19; John 1:16; Eph. 2:5–6; Phil. 3:10; Rom. 6:5–6; 2 Tim. 2:12): and, being united to one another in love, they have …

Art Is Not A Tupperware Container for Truth

“It is this omnipresent flavour of feel that makes bad inventions so mawkish and suffocating, and good ones so tonic. The good ones allow us temporarily to share a sort of passionate sanity. And we may also—which is less important—expect to find in them many psychological truths and profound, at least profoundly felt, reflections. But …

Retailer of Rejuvenating Violence

“When Heidegger laments modernity’s reluctance to exercise the ‘will to mastery,’ it should be remembered that his lament is being expressed in a University of Freiburg lecture hall in 1935, at the height of Germany’s Nazi frenzy. Given that historical setting, how is one to assess Heidegger’s grandiloquence, delivered to those whose ears were ringing …