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    Eucharistic theology is a branch of Christian theology which treats doctrines concerning the Holy Eucharist, also commonly known as the Lord's Supper...
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    presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Anglican eucharistic theologies universally affirm the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, though Evangelical Anglicans...
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    wine consecrated during the Catholic eucharistic liturgy, generally known as the Mass. The definition of the Eucharist in the 1983 Code of Canon Law as the...
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    the consecrated Eucharistic Host, during Eucharistic adoration or benediction. The adoration may also take place when the Eucharist is not exposed but...
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    Anglican eucharistic theology is diverse in thought and practice. Its sources include prayer book rubrics, writings on sacramental theology by Anglican...
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    In Reformed theology, the Lord's Supper or Eucharist is a sacrament that spiritually nourishes Christians and strengthens their union with Christ. The...
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    in the Eucharist, which is by itself a Eucharistic miracle; however, this is to be distinguished from other manifestations of God. Eucharistic miracles...
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    Eucharistic bread, the Lamb or simply the host (Latin: hostia, lit. 'sacrificial victim'), is the bread used in the Christian ritual of the Eucharist...
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    Mass is the main Eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity. The term Mass is commonly used in the Catholic Church, Western...
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  • (male or female, often children), lay eucharistic ministers (also known as chalice bearers), and lay eucharistic visitors (who deliver consecrated bread...
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    First Communion (category Anglican Eucharistic theology)
    believe this event to be very important, as the Eucharist occupies a central role in Catholic theology and practice. First Communion is not celebrated...
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    articles and opinions about the Origins of Eucharist. In his 1994 book, A Feast of Meanings: Eucharistic Theologies from Jesus through Johannine Circles, Bruce...
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  • Early Medieval Theology, 92. Patricia McCormick Zirkel, "The Ninth-Century Eucharistic Controversy: A Context for the Beginnings of Eucharistic Doctrine in...
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  • [failed verification] The eucharistic minister (most commonly the pastor) and the assistants line up, with the eucharistic minister in the center holding...
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    Feast of Corpus Christi (category Anglican Eucharistic theology)
    Divinity of Jesus Christ. Having recognized in 1264 the authenticity of the Eucharistic Miracle of Bolsena, on input of Aquinas,[unreliable source?] the pontiff...
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  • Transsubstantiation (Roman Catholicism) Anglican Eucharistic theology Sacramental Union (Lutheran) Eucharist, also called Communion, or the Lord's Supper...
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    the type of vestment worn for Holy Eucharist or Holy Communion and that worn for other services. Non-Eucharistic vestments are typically referred to...
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    Consubstantiation (category Lutheran Eucharistic theology)
    presence of the body and blood of Christ. Eucharistic theology Impanation Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist Transignification Walker, Greg (6 February...
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    Presence of Christ in the Eucharist has been believed since very ancient times. Early Christian writers referred to the Eucharistic elements as Jesus's body...
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    The Anaphora, Eucharistic Prayer, or Great Thanksgiving is a portion of the Christian liturgy of the Eucharist in which, through a prayer of thanksgiving...
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    Offertory (category Eucharist)
    which may take place also at non-Eucharistic services, often coincides with this ceremony. The Eucharistic theology may vary among those Christian denominations...
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    distortion of the Eucharistic spirit of the Mass over the centuries, so that "one could find merely traces of the original sense of the Eucharist as a thanksgiving...
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    Transubstantiation (category Eucharist in the Catholic Church)
    Introduction to Dogmatic Theology (London: SPCK 1943), p. 366, cited in Brian Douglas, A Companion to Anglican Eucharistic Theology (Brill 2012), vol. 2,...
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    developing covenant theology in the Reformed tradition. Bullinger initially used the covenants as an interpretive grid for eucharistic theology, but by the 1550s...
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    Words of Institution (category Eucharist in the Catholic Church)
    consecrating bread and wine, Christian eucharistic liturgies include in a narrative of that event. Eucharistic scholars sometimes refer to them simply...
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    phrase "Lamb of God" again, later in the Mass. While displaying the Eucharistic species to the people before giving them Holy Communion, he says: "Ecce...
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  • the Rosary, Stations of the Cross, and Eucharistic adoration, declaring they should all derive from the Eucharist and lead back to it. The church community...
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  • Donald Wiebe The irony of theology and the nature of religious thought p19 1990 "As Louth puts it with respect to theology, "the mystery of the faith...
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    reformers. Cranmer wrote a letter to Bucer (now lost) with questions on eucharistic theology. In Bucer's reply dated 28 November 1547, he denied the human real...
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  • Hungarian pastors to teach Zwinglian Eucharistic theology. "Sacramentarianism" (the denial of Christ's presence in the Eucharist) and rebaptism were outlawed...
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