The Eucharist in the Reformation

by Lee Palmer Wandel

• ISBN13: 9780521856799
• ISBN10: 0521856795
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-19
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation and Liturgy takes up the words, 'this is my body', 'this do', and 'remembrance of me' that divided Christendom in the sixteenth century. It traces the different understandings of these simple words and the consequences of those divergent understandings in the delineation of the Lutheran, Reformed, and Catholic traditions: the different formulations of liturgy with their different conceptualizations of the cognitive and collective function of ritual; the different conceptualizations of the relationship between Christ and the living body of the faithful; the different articulations of the relationship between the world of matter and divinity; and the different epistemologies. It argues that the incarnation is at the center of the story of the Reformation and suggests how divergent religious identities were formed.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(2)
``This Is''	3	(3)
``My Body''	6	(3)
``This Do''	9	(2)
``In Remembrance of Me''	11	(1)
The Structure of the Book	11	(3)
The Eucharist to 1500	14	(32)
Augsburg	46	(48)
A Christian City	48	(7)
Preaching	55	(12)
Printing	67	(10)
The Eucharist in Augsburg	77	(17)
The Lutheran Eucharist	94	(45)
The Augsburg Confession	109	(5)
Catechizing the Eucharist	114	(3)
Legislating Liturgy	117	(22)
Nuremberg	121	(12)
Rothenburg ob der Tauber	133	(6)
The Reformed Eucharist	139	(69)
The Institutes of the Christian Religion	142	(24)
The Eucharist in Geneva	166	(6)
The Eucharist in Reformed Confessions	172	(32)
The French or Huguenot Church	176	(8)
The Scots Church	184	(8)
The Dutch Reformed Church(es)	192	(12)
The Heidelberg Catechism	204	(4)
The Catholic Eucharist	208	(48)
The Tridentine Missal	231	(10)
The Mass in Rome	241	(10)
The Mass in the Andes	251	(5)
Conclusions	256	(7)
``This Is''	256	(2)
``My Body''	258	(1)
``This Do''	259	(1)
``In Remembrance of Me''	260	(3)
Appendix 1	263	(2)
I. The Preparation	263	(1)
II. The Oblation	263	(1)
III. The Consecration	263	(1)
IV. The Communion	263	(1)
V. The Dismissal	264	(1)
Appendix 2	265	(6)
Bibliography	271	(24)
Index	295