THIS title, translated, sounds ugly-"A Short History of Christian God-Eating." Of course, it is taken from the practise of the "sacrifice of the mass," and from the dogma that in the Eucharist the body of Christ is eaten-the same body "as that once born of a virgin." This practise (and dogma), Dr, Smith notes, "is the most striking of the many instances of the conservatism of religion, the most ancient survival from a hoary antiquity." A brief review of tribal and ethnic "god-eating" is given in the first chapter under ...
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THIS title, translated, sounds ugly-"A Short History of Christian God-Eating." Of course, it is taken from the practise of the "sacrifice of the mass," and from the dogma that in the Eucharist the body of Christ is eaten-the same body "as that once born of a virgin." This practise (and dogma), Dr, Smith notes, "is the most striking of the many instances of the conservatism of religion, the most ancient survival from a hoary antiquity." A brief review of tribal and ethnic "god-eating" is given in the first chapter under the satiric title of Praeparatio Evangelica! The second chapter opens with the broad statement that "the most excellent of the sacraments was borrowed by the Christians from the older mystery religions." This chapter attempts to recover the immediate pre-Pauline idea of the rite, and considers the Pauline "founding of the Eucharist," which form became regulative in the Church. The rise and progress of the doctrines of transubstantiation and consubstantiation are next followed, and finally the doctrines of the principal Reformers, the British Reformers. "The Last Phase" states the present state of doctrine concerning the Eucharist in the principal communions. The author evidently favors abandonment of the Eucharist as one of a "repetition of outworn survivals from a primeval state." This is the one book which carries back the genealogy of the high-church doctrine of the Eucharist to its primitive prototype. - The Homiletic Review , Volume 84
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