Imputation/Impartation?

[theidler]

I am currently talking with a friend of mine who is a hardline Reformed Protestant, and he told me of how the Calvinistic view of the Eucharist is impartational, whereas the Catholic view is more imputational???
What does this mean?? Is imputation the orthodox doctrine of the Church or no?

 

[pablope]

I am currently talking with a friend of mine who is a hardline Reformed Protestant, and he told me of how the Calvinistic view of the Eucharist is impartational, whereas the Catholic view is more imputational???
What does this mean?? Is imputation the orthodox doctrine of the Church or no?

You can go to this website and search…calledtocommunion.com/2010/06/how-john-calvin-made-me-a-catholic/

Christ.”4

If Calvin’s ideas on Church authority were a surprise to me, his thoughts on the sacraments were shocking. Unlike Evangelicals, who treat the theology of the sacraments as one of the “non-essentials,” Calvin thought they were of the utmost importance. In fact, he taught that a proper understanding of the Eucharist was necessary for salvation. This was the thesis of his very first theological treatise in French (Petit traicté de la Sainte Cène, 1541). Frustrated by Protestant disagreement over the Eucharist, Calvin wrote the text in an attempt to unify the movement around one single doctrine.

Evangelicals are used to finding assurance in their “personal relationship with Christ,” and not through membership in any Church or participation in any ritual. Calvin, however, taught that the Eucharist provides “undoubted assurance of eternal life.”5 And while Calvin stopped short of the Catholic, or even the Lutheran, understanding of the Eucharist, he still retained a doctrine of the Real Presence. He taught that the Eucharist provides a “true and substantial partaking of the body and blood of the Lord” and he rejected the notion that communicants receive “the Spirit only, omitting flesh and blood.”6.

 

[Qwestions]

Common sense would say that a Reformed Protestant would be a Catholic! But, then, since when . . . Too funny!