Jash Comstock
Puritan Board Freshman
What was Calvin's view of the Real Presence in the Supper? From the tracts and treatises I have read, it seems like he took a different view than many modern Prebyterians. Does anyone know more about this?
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Historically, in liturgy this is shown through the sursum corda (Spelling?) Leader: "Lift up your hearts." Response: "We lift them up to the Lord." that was often done at the beginning or near the beginning of worship after the call to worship.
historically, in liturgy this is shown through the sursum corda (spelling?) leader: "lift up your hearts." response: "we lift them up to the lord." that was often done at the beginning or near the beginning of worship after the call to worship.
the bcp has it right before the words of institution.
historically, in liturgy this is shown through the sursum corda (spelling?) leader: "lift up your hearts." response: "we lift them up to the lord." that was often done at the beginning or near the beginning of worship after the call to worship.
the bcp has it right before the words of institution.
bcp?
...To represent to us the spiritual and heavenly bread, Christ has instituted earthly and visible bread as a sacrament of His body and wine as a sacrament of His blood. He testifies to us that as certainly as we take and hold the sacrament in our hands and eat and drink it with our mouths, by which our physical life is then sustained, so certainly do we receive by faith, as the hand and mouth of our soul, the true body and true blood of Christ, our only Saviour, in our souls for our spiritual life.
It is beyond any doubt that Jesus Christ did not commend His sacraments to us in vain. Therefore He works in us all that He represents to us by these holy signs. We do not understand the manner in which this is done, just as we do not comprehend the hidden activity of the Spirit of God. Yet we do not go wrong when we say that what we eat and drink is the true, natural body and the true blood of Christ. However, the manner in which we eat it is not by mouth but in the spirit by faith. In that way Jesus Christ always remains seated at the right hand of God His Father in heaven; yet He does not cease to communicate Himself to us by faith. This banquet is a spiritual table at which Christ makes us partakers of Himself with all His benefits and gives us the grace to enjoy both Himself and the merit of His suffering and death. He nourishes, strengthens, and comforts our poor, desolate souls by the eating of His flesh, and refreshes and renews them by the drinking of His blood.
The Westminster definition is precisely sharper and shorter, but is only a condensed version of the same view found in the Belgic, there possessed of a kind of earnest affirmation of the historic Christian faith, but shorn of (late) Patristic and Medieval philosophical notions regarding the nature and work of "mysteries" and "essences."Worthy receivers outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this sacrament, do then also, inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually, receive and feed upon, Christ crucified, and all benefits of His death: the body and blood of Christ being then, not corporally or carnally, in, with, or under the bread and wine; yet, as really, but spiritually, present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outward senses.