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The Number of the Sacraments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

A. Raymond George
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The Amsterdam literature has pointed out afresh the well-known fact that one of the points at issue between the Catholic and Protestant traditions is the number of the Sacraments, and it may well be that a discussion of this question would bring to light some of the other differences between these two traditions. An attempt is made in this paper to outline a Protestant view of the question. It is clear that “Catholic” is used here in a sense different from that which it bears in the historic creeds. Moreover, the contrast made between Catholic (chiefly Anglo-Catholic) and Protestant (chiefly non-Anglican) views is not intended to deny that the Church of England is in a sense Protestant, or to raise the question how far in loyalty to its formularies it can be other than Protestant.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 1951 , pp. 157 - 172
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1951

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page 159 note 1 Brabant, F. H. in Essays on the Trinity and the Incarnation, p. 349Google Scholar. Cf. Leonard Hodgson, The Doctrine of the Trinity, p. 131.

page 159 note 2 Hymn by P. Doddridge, English Hymnal, No. 320.

page 160 note 1 Whether this is fair to the Jocists, I do not know. I certainly do not wish to attack that movement.

page 160 note 2 I use “liberal” in a sense now common, without denying that there is a sense in which we ought all to be liberal, and without in any way repudiating the great gains achieved by critical scholarship.

page 163 note 1 Some critics of my view say that it makes a false dichotomy by overlooking that close connexion between creation and redemption represented by Irenaeus' doctrine of recapitulation, whereby redemption is the restoration of the original creation as Christ is the “second Adam”. (But this does not alter the fact that creation and redemption are clearly distinguishable from each other.)

page 165 note 1 A phrase used, not in this context, by Charles Wesley (Methodist Hymnbook, No. 824).

page 165 note 2 Methodist Hymnbook, No. 459.

page 165 note 3 Two or three sentences here are paraphrased from an unpublished paper of Dr. T. F. Torrance.

page 166 note 1 See especially W. F. Flemington, The New Testament Doctrine of Baptism.

page 167 note 1 I use “Free Church” throughout in the English sense.

page 169 note 1 Scottish Journal of Theology, Vol. 2 No. 1, March 1949, p. 86Google Scholar.

page 169 note 2 Moss, C. B., The Christian Faith, p. 429Google Scholar.

page 169 note 3 Belton, F. G., A Manual for Confessors, pp. 12–14Google Scholar.

page 170 note 1 Moss, op. cit., p. 429.

page 171 note 1 W. D. Maxwell, especially An Outline of Christian Worship and Concerning Worship.

page 172 note 1 I quote roughly from memory a phrase which I heard William Temple use in an address.