Reformed and Ritual? Why Recovering Ritual Matters
How can a ritual vision of reality enrich and advance the confessional Reformed tradition? Does, or can, ritual have anything to do with being Reformed in the first place? Thoughtful critiques of evangelical Christianity have long complained of the Gnosticism infecting everything from church teaching to worship, including, especially, its often anemic grasp of the why and the what of the Sacraments. When this is true in Reformed churches, we add irony to tragedy since the Reformed theological...