A History of the Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist, Vol. I

by Darwell Stone

Publisher:

Longman

, 1909

Overview

This large two-volume set is one of the most complete works on the Eucharist, and is still recognized today as one of the most valuable. The first volume begins with an analysis of the relevant portions of the New Testament. Stone then systematically analyzes each time period in the history of the Church to the Reformation in the sixteenth century. In each period it provides quotes and analysis of the significant references to the Eucharist, both in the Eastern and Western Church. The second volume begins with the Reformation and continues through the nineteenth century. The primary focus of this volume is the Church of England. However, it deals with other views of the Eucharist as they intersect the Church of England. The Eucharist is one of the most important elements of the Christian religion and one of the most controversial. This two set volume gives a detail analysis of this important issue, covering two thousand years of church history in the process.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Dr. Harnack has stated a crucial difference with great clearness. ‘What we nowadays,’ he writes, ‘understand by ‘symbol’ is a thing which is not that which it represents; at that time ‘symbol’ denoted a thing which in some kind of way really is what it signifies’; ‘What we now call ‘symbol’ is something wholly different from what was so called by the ancient Church’.” (Page 30)

“When the Eucharist was instituted, the idea of communion with God by means of a sacred meal had long been familiar. Among the Greeks this idea underlay the mystic food and drink in the mysteries of Eleusis.” (Pages 2–3)

“All the accounts contained in the New Testament, as also those which were known to St. Justin Martyr and St. Irenæus, concur in representing our Lord as having used the words ‘This is My body’.” (Page 7)

“The words which He speaks, besides being human, are the words of God.” (Page 2)

“On this basis they taught that the Christian in Communion partakes of Christ’s life, that the consecrated elements are in some sense the body and blood of Christ, and that the Eucharist is in some sense a sacrifice.” (Page 22)

Product Details

• Title: A History of the Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist, Vol. I
• Author: Darwell Stone
• Publisher: Longman
• Print Publication Date: 1909
• Logos Release Date: 2007
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Lord’s Supper
• Resource ID: LLS:HISDOCEUCH1
• Resource Type: text.monograph.church-history
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:57:53Z

About Darwell Stone

Stone, Darwell (1859-1941) was a man of exceptional learning, spiritual insight and political shrewdness. An Anglo-Catholic theologian, he was arguably the greatest Principal of the Pusey House, having served there from 1909 to 1934. His best-known work is A History of the Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist, though he published many influential works of theology.