Word: eucharist
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...professional colleague and earned his ire. "Would he claim equality with me?" fumed Frost to Untermeyer, "more claimant than clement." With T. S. Eliot, Frost could not resist a further pun. "We both like to play," he wrote, "but I like to play euchre. He likes to play Eucharist...
...Henry VIII, Anglicanism preserved the ecclesiastical government of bishops in the apostolic succession and the central place of corporate liturgical worship. But the Church of England, with the Continental Reformation, accepted the Bible as the final authority for faith, and recognized only two Christ-instituted sacraments, baptism and Holy Eucharist. Yet if churchmen find it hard to describe a specifically Anglican theology, there is no doubting the reality of a modern Anglican theological manner: not the brain-numbing abstractionism of Germany's sages but an urbane lucidity spiced-à la C. S. Lewis-with literate Oxbridge...
...chats were edgy. The work of the conference, which was sponsored by the World Council of Churches, is with the bedrock problems that stand in the way of Christian unity-the meaning of Baptism, of the Eucharist, of the nature of the church and its ministry. Unanimity on these issues is hard to reach. "Faith and Order is a risky business," admitted Methodist Theologian Albert Outler of Texas' Perkins School of Theology. "We are never farther away than two bigots from disruption or three diehards from a deadlock...
...much of the Gospel "could probably have been read without misgiving by a Christian of the period, and certainly some of the themes appear in other works which have never been considered anything but orthodox." For example, Philip paraphrases St. John's Gospel on the importance of the Eucharist: "But what is this which will inherit? That which belongs to Jesus with his blood. Because of this he said 'he who shall not eat my flesh and drink my blood has no life in him.' He who has received these has food and drink and clothing...
...past Popes or past councils. But the fathers may well formally note that the last word has not been said about the church's revealed truths, and they may attempt to give new dimension to such doctrines as papal infallibility, the "real presence" of Christ in the Eucharist, the nature of original...