...Andrew Cunning Marie Howe Ralph Waldo Emerson Walt Whitman Marilynne Robinson American Poetry Sacrament Theopoetics Transcendentalism Catholic Protestant Ordinary Transubstantiation ‘I embrace the common,’ declared Ralph Waldo Emerson in his infamous 1838 Harvard address...

....” Scotus asserted that the grace communicated to believers through the seven sacraments fosters the growth of Christian character in believers, evident in their growth in grace. Regarding the Eucharist, like his contemporary Aquinas, Scotus believed in transubstantiation, although there are complicated...

... of obedience to Jesus’s command and example. Eucharist in his view did not involve any “re-sacrificing” of Christ, nor did the bread and wine undergo transubstantiation into the Body and Blood of Christ—rather, it was an expression of the love of God for the church. Thus the sacramental theology of Menno...

... Council (1215) employed the term ‘transubstantiation’ (change of substance) to speak of bread and wine becoming Christ’s body and blood. The term ‘transubstantiation’ has become such a marker of Catholic eucharistic theology that is it difficult for some to imagine how the Church survived for over...

... liturgy and teaching. One of the focal points of the study is the emergence of the doctrine and practice of transubstantiation, a language that became enshrined in thirteenth century orthodoxy. The chapter sets out with St. Augustine, who did not know either this doctrine, or the theological questions...

... mediate the agency of author and reader, and how poetry embodies meaning. This opening section also challenges a recurring narrative that has read poetic investment in the eucharist as resulting from the Protestant rejection of transubstantiation. Critiquing this secularizing teleology, it provides...

... Johannes and doctrine of the Trinity De Deo Trino De Persona Christi Examen Religionis Christianae substance De Incarnatione Dei resurrection and philosophical theology vinculum substantiale embodiment Friedrich Johann Des Bosses Bartholomew Eucharist Lutheranism transubstantiation...

... have contributed to their inclination to consider transubstantiation an authentic element of Orthodox theology. But is certainly not correct to speak of a ‘Babylonian captivity’ of Orthodox theology in this period. Orthodox theologians were not alienated from the doctrine of the early church synods...

... the reception of his very own body and blood—that accounts of his presence, and access to it, could be especially contentious. Debates that began in the universities soon spilled over the walls with the result that simple priests and lay people were now contending with bishops over transubstantiation...

... of the four doctrines of Christianity whose rationality Jews thought they could definitively refute: trinity, incarnation, transubstantiation, and virgin birth. In each case, the book presents a succinct history of the Christian doctrine and then proceeds to a careful examination of the Jewish efforts...

... Descartes's two criteria for substance (the basic subject criterion and the independence criterion), as well as his account of transubstantiation, we see that these answers are mistaken. Descartes countenances an infinity of extended substances. These are quantities of matter that can survive any...

... conflict with natural philosophy. Although not subject to the Inquisition, French philosophers struggled to make their conclusions consistent with the Council of Trent’s teaching. They debated the concept of God, the intelligibility of transubstantiation, and the relation between faith and reason. Among...

... of Alexandria played a key role, eucharistic theology was closely related to doctrinal topics such as the relation of the two natures of Christ. Gregory of Nyssa and other patristic writers employ baking imagery to portray the incorporation of believers into Christ. The doctrine of transubstantiation, which...

... reform of England’s religious identity based upon an Erasmian-inspired critique of the central cognitive premise of medieval ‘sacramental culture’, namely its theological assertion of the fusion of sign and thing signified as epitomized by the Tridentine dogma concerning transubstantiation. Jewel’s...

...This chapter posits the novels of James Joyce as paradigmatic of how blasphemy works in, and as, literary modernism. Modeled on the mystery of the Eucharist, Joyce’s art typifies modernism’s profane exercises in literary transubstantiation. At the same time, his fictions provide a case study in how...

...Discusses the Meditationes, its reception, and Descartes's response. In this work, Descartes avoided theological questions (except for the doctrine of transubstantiation). Describes the structure of the Principia, the culmination of his metaphysics dealing...

... about the communicatio, and concludes that Zwingli’s Christology, contrary to Luther’s appraisal, is in no sense Nestorian. Luther Martin Marburg Colloquy of predication two name theory of transubstantiation union supposital Aquinas Thomas habitus theory of Incarnation Lombard...

... innovations for which Wyclif is best known, including a heightened emphasis on Scripture in Christian life, his rejection of transubstantiation, and his program for ecclesiastical reform, are best understood in terms of the philosophical theology that he developed during his years at Oxford. This book...

... of Protestantism and loyalty, Catholicism and disloyalty” does not do justice to the way they were now used. This change was due in part to the newly visible phenomenon of disloyal Anglicans, and resulted in the development of new religious tests, such as the Declaration against Transubstantiation, which were...