The Lord's Supper as covenant seal, from the Westminster Assembly through Princeton Seminary

[摘要] The Reformed Christian tradition has designated the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Supper as signs and seals. It has also distinguished between the designations and held these differences between them to be important. The descriptor “seal” is present in the Reformed confessions and catechisms of the 16th and 17th century, and is a distinct label of the Reformed theology of the sacraments. The specific term “seal”4 finds its biblical warrant as the description of a rite in Rom 4:11.The employment of the term “seal” did not, however, begin with the Reformation, appearing as early as the 2nd century and continuing through at least the 13th century. The articulation of this perspective within the Reformed tradition acknowledges the biblical language and the historical theology of the church, while developing it more fully.

[发布机构] University:University of Glasgow

[关键词] Sacraments, Puritans, The Lord's Supper, Communion, Westminster Assembly, Princeton Seminary, Eucharist, Seal, Covenant, Nevin, Hodge, Calamy, John 6.