The Eucharist in the Reformation - Softcover

Wandel, Lee Palmer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521673127 ISBN 13: 9780521673129

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This study traces the evolution of the words, "this is my body," "this do," and "remembrance of me" that divided Christendom in the sixteenth century. Lee Wandel focuses on the consequences of the different interpretations of these simple words in the delineation of the Lutheran, Reformed, and Catholic traditions. Finally, Wandel argues that the incarnation is at the center of the story of the Reformation and suggests how divergent religious identities were formed.

About this title

Book Description:

This is the first major study of the understandings of the Eucharist and its liturgy that divided Western Christendom in the sixteen century. It follows the words of institution-- "this is my body," "this do," "in remembrance of me"-- as different theologians took them up and from their divergent understandings, set forth distinctive forms of worship, as well as divergent understandings of what it meant for Christ to have a body, what the relationship of Christians to Christ 1500 years after his death is to be.

About the Author:

Lee Palmer Wandel is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where she is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. She is the author of Always among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli's Zurich (1990), and Vocacious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel (1995), and editor of Facing Death (1990), and History Has Many Voices (2003). Her work has been published in the Archive for Reformation History, the Sixteenth Century Journal, The Cambridge History of Christianity and many other journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521673127
• ISBN 13: 9780521673129
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316