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All Blog Posts With Tag: Eucharist
Jürgen Moltmann believed that Non-Christians should be invited to the Lord's Supper, and that there should be no restrictions to the eucharist (commonly referred to as "fencing the table"). Wolfhart Pannenberg disagreed with Moltmann, and in his Systematic Theology Vol. III, Pannenberg criticized Moltmann's "eucharist community" as too broad of […]
The Agape (Love Feasts) in Early Christianity (February 11, 2013)
The New Testament contains cryptic verses about the common meal referred to as a "Love Feast" or Agapae around the Lord's Supper. The following post is a collection of Patristic, Historian and Scripture references to the Common Meal. Here are a few examples, with Jude 12 being the most clear […]
Calvin’s Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper (June 20, 2012)
Keith A. Mathison's Given For You: Reclaiming Calvin's Doctrine of the Lord's Supper is a magisterial treatment of John Calvin's doctrine of the Lord's Supper. The main thesis of the book is that the Reformed Tradition has abandoned Calvin's Real Presence view of the Lord's Supper and has over time returned […]
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In Melanchthon's Loci, he says that the belief that the Mass benefits others besides the recipient originated in Thomas' Summa, here's the quotation from Loci:
"All Masses are godless, therefore, except those by which consciences are encouraged for the strengthening of faith. A sacrifice is what we offer to God, but we do […]