No Sacraments, No Protestantism

Phillip Cary of Eastern College has argued, “Protestantism cannot carry through its own deepest intention – to put faith in the word of Christ alone – without a Catholic doctrine of sacramental efficacy.”

I offer a brief defense of Cary’s counter-intuitive claim at The Evangelical Pulpit.

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