"Essays on the Lord's Supper"

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This paper positively reviews Cullmann and Leenhardt's book on the controversial aspect of Christian worship regarding how to view the taking of the Lord's Supper every Sunday. The paper describes the authors' theological perceptions as complimentary, yet distinct and concludes that their points of view are provoking, challenging and easy to follow.

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"One of the most perplexing issues facing any Christian today is the issue of how to view the taking of the Lord's Supper every Sunday. The ancient images of wine, bread, and physical and spiritual sacrifice have undergoing extensive debate and reinterpretation throughout all of Christianity. These images, despite the controversy they have inspired, however, still are central to Christian ritual and communal life and doctrine today. Their controversial nature has spanned from the doctrine of transubstantiation established in the early Catholic Church, to the more flexible and metaphorical definition of some of today's Christian communities. In their book, Essays on the Lord's Supper the authors Oscar Cullmann and Franz Jehan Leenhardt offer their own faith perspectives on the issue. Their duality of perspective is particularly instructive, not simply from a theological point of view, but because Oscar Cullmann was a professor of Christianity in France, at the Sorbonne while Franz Jehan Leenhardt was professor of Theology at the University of Geneva. Thus, their perspective is multinational in its theological perspective, although both come from the same European Reformed traditions of worship."

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