The Real Presence: Traditional Anglican Theology of the Eucharist - Hardcover

by Michael Dellavecchia (Author), Lisa Dellavecchia (Editor)

What happens during Mass when the Priest puts his back to the Congregation, faces East, and CONSECRATES the BREAD and WINE? Whereof a holy act is occurring, how does the INTENTION OF THE PRIEST, who eats the Eucharist, matter? This book delves into the ANAPHORA or Eucharistic Liturgy that contains these sacred works: the OBLATION or the predicating of the Sacrifice; the EPICLESIS or the Invocation of God's REAL PRESENCE; and witness of the ANAMNESIS or sharing of the Eternal Memory of the Last Supper, by which communicants share HOLY COMMUNION, their FELLOWSHIP of PROPITIATION with JESUS. By contrasting the words of WILLIAM LAUD and RICHARD HOOKER with the writings of the EASTERN ORTHODOX, ROBERT BELLARMINE and others, the pages of THE REAL PRESENCE clarify the profound epistemological and Christological distinctions between the Euchology of the VIA MEDIA, CONSUBSTANTIATION, TRANSUBSTANTIATION, and METOUSIOSIS. Examining also the EXECUTION OF LAUD in a redemptive context (while assessing the failure of QUANTUM MECHANICS to interpret METAPHYSICS, ) the TRANSFIGURATION of PREVENIENT GRACE into GOD'S GRACE during the Sacraments of BAPTISM and COMMUNION, through