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- Title
Explaining Eucharistic "Real Presence": Moving beyond a Medieval Conundrum.
- Authors
Prusak, Bernard P.
- Abstract
Understandings of body and resurrected bodiliness in the early centuries shaped the explanations of Christ's presence in the Eucharist. Medieval writers debated how Jesus' body, which was at the right of the Father, could also be present in the Eucharist. The concept o f transubstantiation and Thomas Aquinas's emphasis on a substantial presence sought to resolve that conundrum. This article shows how contemporary theological perspectives on body and resurrected bodiliness, on the human personality o f Jesus, and on symbolic reality open up a new path toward explaining eucharistic real presence.
- Subjects
REAL presence in Holy Communion; RESURRECTION; TRANSUBSTANTIATION; JESUS Christ -- Presence; THOMAS, Aquinas, Saint, ca. 1225-1274
- Publication
Theological Studies, 2014, Vol 75, Issue 2, p231
- ISSN
0040-5639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0040563914530613