Understanding Four Views on the Lord's Supper
Title | Understanding Four Views on the Lord's Supper PDF eBook |
Author | Zondervan, |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2009-05-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0310542758 |
The Lord's Supper has been the central and characteristic action of the church at worship. But there are still many ways of understanding it and many questions surrounding this meal... Who should participate in the Lord’s Supper? How frequently should we observe it? What does this meal mean? What happens when we eat the bread and drink from the cup? What do Christians disagree about and what do they hold in common? These and other questions are explored in this volume of the fair-minded, informative Counterpoints series. Contributors make a case for one of the following views: Baptist view (memorialism) Reformed view (spiritual presence) Lutheran view (consubstantiation) Roman Catholic view (transubstantiation) All contributors use Scripture to present their views, and each responds to the others' essays. Included are resources for understanding the topic further, such as: A listing of statements on the Lord's Supper from creeds and confessions Quotations from noted Christians A resource listing of books on the Lord's Supper Discussion questions for each chapter to facilitate small group and classroom use The Counterpoints series presents a comparison and critique of scholarly views on topics important to Christians that are both fair-minded and respectful of the biblical text. Each volume is a one-stop reference that allows readers to evaluate the different positions on a specific issue and form their own, educated opinion.
A Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Our Savior Christ
Title | A Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Our Savior Christ PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Cranmer |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2004-08-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1725211343 |
Thomas Cranmer was Archbishop of Canterbury (1533-1556) in the reign of Henry VIII and Edward VI. He was deposed under Mary Tudor and burned at Oxford as a heretic. The charges brought against him were based chiefly on the doctrine of the Lord's Supper expounded in this book. The core of Cranmer's teaching was that the sacrament was essentially spiritual in nature. The body of Christ was not present in a physical or carnal way, as the Church of Rome taught by its doctrine of transubstantiation. Cranmer based his position on Scripture, in particular St. John's Gospel, where, he showed, Christ meant eating and drinking His body and blood to be understood as receiving by faith the benefits of His death for sins. To think of eating and drinking Christ's actual body and blood with the mouth is, he argued, a gross misunderstanding; the purpose of the sacrament is to satisfy spiritual hunger. The Roman doctrine, he maintained, was also contrary to the true Catholic teaching of the two natures of Christ - His humanity and His divinity. In the creeds we confess that Christ has ascended bodily into heaven, not to return to earth in that manner until the last day. The true Catholic faith, therefore, requires us to believe that He is not present with us in the nature of His humanity but that He is present in the nature of His deity. To teach, as the Church of Rome does, that He is present bodily in the sacrament is to deny this teaching of the creeds, to assert a heretical doctrine of the one nature of Christ and to deny His real humanity. For this reason Cranmer called his book 'A Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament'. The errors of Rome also extended to the notion that the sacrament was a sacrifice offered by the priest to take away sins. Cranmer refuted this from the Scriptures and the ancient Fathers.
Archbishop Cranmer on the True and Catholic Doctrine and Use of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper
Title | Archbishop Cranmer on the True and Catholic Doctrine and Use of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Cranmer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Lord's Supper |
ISBN |
Reformation Study Bible-ESV
Title | Reformation Study Bible-ESV PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Charles Sproul |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1994 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN | 9781596382428 |
More than fifty scholars, under R. C. Sproul, collaborated to produce this study Bible to help readers understand the great doctrines of the Christian faith. Published by Ligonier Ministries, trade distribution by P&R Publishing.
Norms for the Distribution and Reception of Holy Communion Under Both Kinds in the Dioceses of the United States of America
Title | Norms for the Distribution and Reception of Holy Communion Under Both Kinds in the Dioceses of the United States of America PDF eBook |
Author | Catholic Church. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops |
Publisher | USCCB Publishing |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781574554328 |
In this volume in the Liturgy Documentary Series, the bishops reaffirm the distribution of the Holy Communion to the faithful under both kinds.
What Is the Lord's Supper?
Title | What Is the Lord's Supper? PDF eBook |
Author | Richard D. Phillips |
Publisher | Basics of the Reformed Faith |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780875526478 |
Presents the biblical institution of the Lord's Supper, theological issues (the presence of Christ, the sacrament's efficacy and necessity), and pastoral considerations.
Lutheranism 101 Worship
Title | Lutheranism 101 Worship PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas M. Winger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780758634092 |
"Quick, usable, comprehensive, concise"--Cover.