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- Title
THE EUCHARISTIC PRESENCE OF CHRIST IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH PROTESTANT POPULAR PIETY: TOWARD A CATHOLIC-PROTESTANT RAPPROCHEMENT?
- Authors
Maan, Tony
- Abstract
The Protestant Reformers' categorical rejection of transubstantiation has made the question of christological presence in the eucharist one of the most problematic points in the history of Catholic-Protestant discourse. Ecumenical dialogue on this issue has been conducted in official ecclesiastical language, located primarily on a doctrinal level. An alternate language and locus of investigation — namely, popular religious literature and lay perceptions and experiences of Christ's presence in the sacrament — may provide new avenues of exploration and may prove beneficial in making progress on this question. This essay considers such popular perceptions as evidenced in seventeenth-century Dutch Reformed texts (poetry and sermons) of two prominent and popular clergy, Willem Teellinck and Jacobus Revius. Characteristics of their representation of christological presence in the eucharist — collapse of historical time through narrative imagination, engagement of the five senses for affective experience and spiritual nourishment, and emphasis on relating to the physical aspects of Christ's corporeal body — are points that may demonstrate congruence with Roman Catholic lay language and concepts with respect to popular participation in the sacrament and may suggest avenues for Protestant-Catholic rapprochement.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; ESSAYS; REAL presence in Holy Communion; TEELLINCK, Willem; REVIUS, Jacobus; PROTESTANT-Catholic relations; NETHERLANDS Reformed Church; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 2009, Vol 44, Issue 2, p266
- ISSN
0022-0558
- Publication type
Essay