Call it whatever you would like, Cranmer clearly rejected the bodily presence of Jesus Christ's Body and Blood in the Eucharist--the very things...
Anamnesis is certainly part of the Eucharist. But it is the not the reason why we observe, celebrate, and partake of the Eucharist, is it? After...
With all due respect, Lowly Layman, I have cited (several times) Cranmer's own words and works that show he did not believe that Christ is "fully"...
Here is a citation from Cyril Richardson, who asserts (I believe quite convincingly) that Cranmer, whether or not he was conscious of it himself,...
Just because the exact wording of the phrase finitum non capax infiniti may not appear in the writings of the English Reformation does not mean...
Pompous? Hardly. If you have never heard of this phrase (finitum non capax infiniti), then what else can I do but assume that you have done little...
Then I can only assume that you have done little or no reading into the sacramental controversies of the reformation period. Zwingli marshalled it...
Once again, I did not say that Cranmer was a Zwinglian. I said that his doctrine of the Eucharist is a more elaborate and decorative form of...
I assume this is directed toward me. My comment referred to a specific point of doctrine in Cranmer's theology, not to his theology as a whole. If...
(1) My point in noting the transfiguration was not to show His resurrection, but to show that His body was fully indwelled with the Godhead (Col....
Thank you for your reply, Lowly Layman. I wish there was not such a divide between Lutherans and Anglicans on the matter of the Eucharist, but the...
Doesn't Cranmer basically follow the same line as Calvin, who claimed that it is we who ascend to Christ, and not Christ who descends to us, in...
Alright. I thought we were moving toward an agreement, until you began to deny that we partake of Christ's crucified and resurrected Body in the...
That is how Luther often spoke of Absolution: as a continuation of Holy Baptism--daily dying to sin (confession and repentance) and rising to...
Okay, now I think we are getting somewhere. You say that you agree with the Scriptures and the early Church Fathers that what we are consuming in...
The problem, I think, comes when we begin to discuss what the sacraments are by a pre-defined understanding of the term "sacrament." If we begin...
A picture of your mother may be a representation of your true mother, but that picture is a mere sign pointing to a reality beyond itself, namely,...
Lutherans do not hold to what is commonly called "consubstantiation." The Lutheran Confessions speak of the union of Christ's true Body and Blood...
Greetings Christus Resurrexit, I, for one, applaud the efforts of Vatican II and find the standard Protestant narrative of its being a...
I agree with Mockingbird that the diagrams above do not accurately portray the status of the controversy between the East and the West. The...