The Water and the Blood: How the Sacraments Shape Christian Identity

by Kevin P. Emmert

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2023

Overview

This Thoughtful Book Explores How the Sacraments Shape Christian Identity Fully in Christ

In today’s Western society, a robust sense of identity is advertised as essential. A thorough understanding of one’s character, personality, and status is the only way to gain significance and pursue purpose.

In The Water and the Blood, author Kevin P. Emmert combats this self-fabricated and unfulfilling mindset with a sustainable solution through Christ. From a theological perspective, Emmert explores the depth of Christian identity, which God made visible through the sacraments of the church.

This thoughtful book explains how God uses multisensory elements—water, bread, and wine—to communicate with his people and unite them to the life-giving body of Christ. Readers will dwell in this divine mystery, learning how a reconciled relationship with God establishes believers as baptized and communing beings with their identity fully in Christ.

Offers a Sustainable Solution for Identity Confusion: Uncovers how a transformative relationship with Christ produces lasting significance and purpose

Examines the Sacraments: By exploring baptism and Communion, this book outlines what identity in Christ entails

Great for Pastors, Seminary Students, and Scholars: Rich in theology, contents from this book will help ministers teach others how the sacraments shape Christian identity

Key Features

• Explains how God uses multisensory elements to communicate with his people
• Uncovers how a transformative relationship with Christ produces lasting significance and purpose
• Explores how a reconciled relationship with God establishes believers as baptized and communing beings with their identity fully in Christ

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction: The Problem of the Christian Self
• Chapter 1: Word and Sacrament
• Chapter 2: The Sacraments and Identity
• Chapter 3: Baptized Persons
• Chapter 4: Communing Persons
• Chapter 5: Conforming Persons
• Chapter 6: Participating Persons
• Conclusion: Reimagining the Christian Self

Product Details

• Title: The Water and the Blood: How the Sacraments Shape Christian Identity
• Author: Kevin P. Emmert
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 272
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Baptism; Lord's Supper; Sacraments
• Resource ID: LLS:WTRBLDCHRSDNTTY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-11-07T15:31:52Z

About Kevin P. Emmert

Kevin P. Emmert (PhD, London School of Theology) is an academic editor at Crossway and the author of John Calvin and the Righteousness of Works. He is married to Ashley and has three sons, Jack, Charlie, and Noah.