Wolfhart Pannenberg on Restricting the Lord’s Supper to Disciples Seeking Fellowship with Jesus: A Response to Jürgen Moltmann (December 15, 2017)

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 […]

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Jürgen Moltmann on Inviting Non-Christians to the Lord’s Supper (December 13, 2017)

Jürgen Moltmann says that Jesus Christ's invitation to the Lord's Supper extends beyond the frontier of Christianity and includes the whole world, such that atheists and non-Christians are invited to partake the Eucharist. Moltmann argues that no restrictions to the Lord's Supper are justified, because Jesus invited the tax-collectors and […]

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