By Alister E. McGrath, Darren C. Marks
This Companion brings jointly new contributions from the world over well known students on the way to learn the previous, current and way forward for Protestantism.
• Co-edited through prime Protestant theologians Alister E. McGrath and Darren C. Marks, with contributions from across the world well known students.
• Opens with an research into the formation of Protestant id throughout Europe, North the USA, Asia, Australasia and Africa.
• comprises assurance of best Protestant thinkers, resembling Luther, Calvin, Schleiermacher and Barth.
• Considers the interplay of Protestantism with diversified components of contemporary existence, together with the humanities, politics, the legislations and technological know-how.
• Debates the way forward for Protestantism in either Western and non-Western settings.
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Water baptism is given to infants because baptism, like circumcision, is a sign of the covenant, and the children of believers are born into the new covenant just as Jews were born into the covenant made with Abraham. This does not mean that water baptism removes original sin, for Zwingli taught that only Christ removes the sin of Adam, as taught by Paul in Romans 5 : 12 ff. Though Zwingli appreciated Luther’s emphasis on the Word of God and faith in Christ, he thought that Luther’s teaching on the Lord’s Supper was no better than that of the papacy.
Marks however, as we shall see, despite the universality of access through Christ did recast polity (order) in parallels to Catholic structures of priest and laity, especially in terms of administering ‘gifts’ (charisms) of offices and the sacraments. The interpretation of the ‘priesthood of all believers’, originally a mark of Christ’s uniqueness and claim on the Christian as Lord, is quickly shifted in its gravity to a reflection on polity. The ‘Protestant Problematic’ The problem in trying to ‘identify’ Protestantism is, in part, due to its origins as a breakaway movement from a larger ecclesial grouping, which tended to define and conceptualize itself theologically, rather than institutionally.
This spiritual presence, ‘in, with and under’ the elements, is due to God’s promise and action in Christ. The Eucharist is boldly claimed by the Christian as nothing less than Christ, and therefore the promise of forgiveness which in turn shapes the Christian’s life in reality. Calvin, likewise, roots his Eucharistic theology in the primacy of God’s action and promise in Christ. The elements are signs, God’s sensual accommodation to us, of the true spiritual reality which is becoming true in faith.
