This Is My Body: The Presence of Christ in Reformation Thought. Thomas J. Davis

[Daniel_Marsh]

This Is My Body

Surveys of the Reformation era typically provide readers with a broadly framed discussion of the Lord’s Supper and the respective positions taken by the major figures involved–Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Ulrich Zwingli–with regard to Christ’s presence in the bread and wine. These more narrowly focused essays by Thomas Davis, however, bring a helpful sense of context to the discussion with an examination of important details that are often overlooked. Davis devotes several chapters to Luther and to Calvin, examining the development of their eucharistic theology and its relation to their broader understanding of the presence of Christ in the community of faith. His study is particularly insightful with regard to the Reformers’ use of language and their concept of how “signs” work. The final two chapters expand his study to include other figures of the Reformation era.

View the table of contents and read Davis’s introduction.
bakeracademic.com/Media/MediaManager/Excerpt_Davis_MyBody.pdf

 

[TriuneUnity]

This Is My Body

Surveys of the Reformation era typically provide readers with a broadly framed discussion of the Lord’s Supper and the respective positions taken by the major figures involved–Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Ulrich Zwingli–with regard to Christ’s presence in the bread and wine. These more narrowly focused essays by Thomas Davis, however, bring a helpful sense of context to the discussion with an examination of important details that are often overlooked. Davis devotes several chapters to Luther and to Calvin, examining the development of their eucharistic theology and its relation to their broader understanding of the presence of Christ in the community of faith. His study is particularly insightful with regard to the Reformers’ use of language and their concept of how “signs” work. The final two chapters expand his study to include other figures of the Reformation era.

View the table of contents and read Davis’s introduction.
bakeracademic.com/Media/MediaManager/Excerpt_Davis_MyBody.pdf

That’s awesome, man thanks!

 

[Mark77]

Interesting, but let’s not get too involved in what ordinary men have to say about Jesus.

Jesus clearly and definitively said everything needed in Holy Scripture and through His Church, the one, Holy, and Apostolic Church. (Read John 6!).

The Church He established to continue His Witness to mankind for all generations.

Mark

 

[Peter_J]

This Is My Body

Surveys of the Reformation era typically provide readers with a broadly framed discussion of the Lord’s Supper and the respective positions taken by the major figures involved–Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Ulrich Zwingli–with regard to Christ’s presence in the bread and wine. These more narrowly focused essays by Thomas Davis, however, bring a helpful sense of context to the discussion with an examination of important details that are often overlooked. Davis devotes several chapters to Luther and to Calvin, examining the development of their eucharistic theology and its relation to their broader understanding of the presence of Christ in the community of faith. His study is particularly insightful with regard to the Reformers’ use of language and their concept of how “signs” work. The final two chapters expand his study to include other figures of the Reformation era.

View the table of contents and read Davis’s introduction.
bakeracademic.com/Media/MediaManager/Excerpt_Davis_MyBody.pdf

I’m going to be honest with you: I read the linked Introduction rather reluctantly, and more for the sake of promoting goodwill between Catholics and Protestants than out of real interest.

But on a positive note, having read I think it is very good. (I’m speaking, of course of the Introduction. I haven’t read the book “This Is My Body: The Presence of Christ in Reformation Thought” so I can’t say whether it is good, bad, or indifferent.) For example, I like that fact the one chapter is devoted to “Paul’s injunction to ‘discern the body’ in the midst of the eucharistic celebration”, which I think is neglected in a lot of the more liberal brands of Protestantism.

 

[O.S.Luke]

It is a good book. When I got it, I was disappointed that it only went down the Lutheran and Reformed traditions route (a/k/a Calvin/Zwingli). Being Methodist and descending from the Anglican tradition and doctrine myself, there was very little, if any, addressing the issue, to my disappointment.

Someone needs to write a book from the Anglican tradition that’s an easier read. The seminal book from Anglican perspective is The Shape of the Liturgy by Dom Gregory Dix (who was an Anglican Benedictine Monk). It’s a very academic book, however - great for seminary, but not for the average layman.

 

[Peter_J]

It is a good book. When I got it, I was disappointed that it only went down the Lutheran and Reformed traditions route (a/k/a Calvin/Zwingli). Being Methodist and descending from the Anglican tradition and doctrine myself, there was very little, if any, addressing the issue, to my disappointment.

Someone needs to write a book from the Anglican tradition that’s an easier read. The seminal book from Anglican perspective is The Shape of the Liturgy by Dom Gregory Dix (who was an Anglican Benedictine Monk). It’s a very academic book, however - great for seminary, but not for the average layman.

Good point.