Word: euchariste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Where the author turns to rumination over the spectacle of a dying race, or comparison between the eucharist and primitive cannibal rites, he treads where a mere passing acquaintance with Lang, Frazer, and Franz Cumont will not allow us to follow. His anthropology may be sound; at any rate it is interesting. And his conclusions are pathetic...
...Talbot is the author of several well-known works, among the most important being the folowing: "Influence of Christianity on Slavery"; "Some Titles and Aspects of the Eucharist"; "Leeds Parish Church Sermons"; "The Fullness of Christ"; "Some Aspects of Christian Truth"; "Southwark Sermons...
...obedience due to officers of the church--not, now, as men of lofty spirituality alone--but as those clothed with the dignity of established rank. Men followed the clerical claim of apostolic succession and the corollary claims of especial spiritual grace; then came, too, the increased importance of the eucharist as a sacrament and the priest as the only one competent to administer it, and in these claims lay the seeds of clerical supremacy and sacerdotalism, that afterwards bore the full fruit of the exclusive "high church" ideas. The Roman church adopted these ideas and fully expressed them...
...special object of the Lord's Supper was social religion, to bind Christ's followers together. It was grafted on the Passover and, like it, was a family meal. All the names used for it, the Supper the Eucharist or thanksgiving (like Grace after meat) the Greek and Latin names, Synaxis and Collecta, and even Mass (which is Missus, the name for a course at a meal, preserved in our word Mess) show its social character: and this is the point of St. Paul's teaching about it in I Cor. XI, and also in the document called the Didache...
...soul's struggle we can but faintly understand. At the end of it he was no longer the champion of reason and religious individualism but their greatest defamer. It was in this spirit that he urged the persecution of the peasants, and disputed with Zivingli at Marburg concerning the Eucharist. There was something naively terrible in the vehemence with which he devoted himself to contending with his old followers...