Category Archives: Sacramental Theology

Blogging Through Chauvet’s ‘Symbol and Sacrament’ – Introduction

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Alastair Roberts

First published in 1987 in French as Symbole et Sacrement: Un relecture sacramentelle de l’existence chrétienne, Louis-Marie Chauvet’s Symbol and Sacrament was one of the first thinkers to think through what the linguistic turn might mean for the area of … Continue reading →

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Protestantism, Eucharistic Participation in Christ’s Flesh, and Transubstantiation

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Alastair Roberts

It is popularly supposed in certain quarters that the general denial of transubstantiation among Protestants and particularly by the Reformers was occasioned by a resistance to the ideas of the ‘Real Presence’ of Christ in the Eucharist, or to the … Continue reading →

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Chariots and Water

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Alastair Roberts

There are occasions when one is struck by the extent to which a biblical motif to which one had previously not attended is present within the text. I recently had the experience when considering the significance of chariots within the … Continue reading →

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