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Book SynopsisA Eucharist-shaped Church: Prayer, Theology, Mission is a historical-theological survey of major movements and thinkers that have shaped sacramental theology and liturgical worship within the Anglican/Episcopal tradition. The contributors attend closely to the interplay between Christian thinking, praying, and living in order to distil lessons for liturgical revision and worship renewal. Each chapter explores a major thinker or movement, and explores how the theological, liturgical, ecclesiological, and missiological commitments of the thinker or movement interacted and shaped the thinker’s or movement’s overall thought. This serves a two-fold purpose: 1.) Much scholarship about Anglican eucharistic theology treats some aspect of that theology in isolation (presence, sacrifice, etc.) from other aspects, and from the context in which the theology was developed. This approach shows how these various aspects and contexts in fact have mutual explanatory power. 2.) The interaction of these various aspects of eucharistic theology provide a framework for those involved in liturgical revision to think through the commitments communicated by the proposed revisions.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Liturgical Revision: Assessing the Stakes
Daniel J. Handschy
Part I. Historical Investigations: Living in the Tension of Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, and Lex Vivendi
1. Early Foundations of Anglican Ecclesiology and Sacramental Theology
Marshall E. Crossnoe
2. “Sacrifices of Laud, Praise, and Thanksgiving”: The Eucharist in Classical Anglican Formularies
Benjamin M. Guyer
Eighteenth Century
3. Thomas Rattray (1684-1743): Divinization as the Foundational Doctrine for Sacramental Theology
Donna R. Hawk-Reinhard
4. Benjamin Hoadly (1676‒1761): Subverting the Sacramental Test
Daniel J. Handschy
5. Samuel Seabury’s (1729‒1796) Eucharistic Ecclesiology: Ecclesial Implications of a Sacrificial Eucharist
Daniel J. Handschy
Nineteenth Century
6. John Henry Hobart (1775–1830): Evangelical Truth and Apostolic Order
Daniel J. Handschy
7. Robert Isaac Wilberforce (1802‒1857): Constituting a Mediatorial Church
Daniel J. Handschy
8. F. D. Maurice (1805‒72) and His Followers: An Emerging Vision of the Eucharist and Christian Socialism
Warren E. Crews
Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
9. Charles Gore (1853-1932): The Eucharist and Prophetic Mission
Don H. Compier
Part II. Examining Prayer Book Revisions Using Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, and Lex Vivendi
10. Liturgical Revision, Past and Future
Donna R. Hawk-Reinhard and Daniel J. Handschy
11. Theories of Atonement and Sacrifice in Episcopal Eucharistic Prayers
Daniel J. Handschy
12. Contemporary Eucharistic Texts of Our Anglican and Ecumenical Partners
Warren E. Crews
13. The Filioque: A Test Case
Warren E. Crews
Epilogue: A Method of Analysis
Daniel J. Handschy
Glossary
