Michael Bird (a Reformed Baptist, by the way) on Signing the Cross. Is there good, evangelical rationale for why signing the cross is looked down on? If not, then why is it practically non-existent in evangelical/reformed circles? If so, what is the reason?
Archive for August, 2008
Signing the Cross
Posted in Bible, Tradition and Interpretation, Church Practices on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Was Calvin Wright?
Posted in Bible, Tradition and Interpretation on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to Matthew Mason for bringing up this quote in his discussion on Wright’s view of justification (bracketed comments his):
Calvin (Insts, III.xi.10):
“We do not, therefore, contemplate him outside ourselves from afar in order that his righteousness may be imputed to us but because we put on Christ and are engrafted into his body [NB this [...]