Taylor’s earlier criticism of Protestant “disenchantment” finds a corollary in this loss of communion, and hence the loss of the Eucharist as central to the practice of Christian worship. Could we imagine a Protestantism that has room for both Word and Table — for that “faith that comes by hearing” and communion with the triune God? One might suggest that this is just the Protestantism found in John Calvin, despite the flattened spirituality of his professed heirs.
