The Eucharist in the Reformation [Paperback]

The first major study of the the Eucharist that divided Western Christendom in the sixteen century.This is the first major study of the understandings of the Eucharist and its liturgy that divided Western Christendom in the sixteen century. It follows the words of institution-- this is my body, this do, in remembrance of me -- as different theologians took them up and from their divergent understandings, set forth distinctive forms of worship, as well as divergent understandings of what it meant for Christ to have a body, what the relationship of Christians to Christ 1500 years after his death is to be.This is the first major study of the understandings of the Eucharist and its liturgy that divided Western Christendom in the sixteen century. It follows the words of institution-- this is my body, this do, in remembrance of me -- as different theologians took them up and from their divergent understandings, set forth distinctive forms of worship, as well as divergent understandings of what it meant for Christ to have a body, what the relationship of Christians to Christ 1500 years after his death is to be.This study traces the evolution of the words, this is my body, this do, and remembrance of me that divided Christendom in the sixteenth century. Lee Wandel focuses on the consequences of the different interpretations of these simple words in the delineation of the Lutheran, Reformed, and Catholic traditions. Finally, Wandel argues that the incarnation is at the center of the story of the Reformation and suggests how divergent religious identities were formed.1. The Eucharist to 1500; 2. Augsburg; 3. The Lutheran Eucharist; 4. The Reformed Eucharist; 5. The Catholic Eucharist. valuable and worth reading
-David N. Power, The Catholic Historical Review Lee Palmer Wandel offers a very welcome comparative study of Eucharistic practice. Its balanced, cross-denominational approach provides rich new insights into the differing enactments of the cl³½