scholarly journals The Theology of the Holy Eucharist and the Doctrine of Transubstantiation

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
Francis Appiah-Kubi
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The Body ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Holy Communion ◽  
The Third ◽  
Real Presence ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Underlying Reality ◽  
The Church

Holy Communion is one of the seven sacraments in the Catholic Church. With Baptism and Confirmation, they constitute the sacraments of Initiation. Similarly, with the Word of God, they constitute the two indispensable pillars upon which the Church is built. It is the “fount and apex of the whole Christian life” (LG 11). It is named Holy Eucharist because it is an action of thanksgiving to God. It recalls God’s work of creation, redemption, and sanctification. The Eucharistic elements, bread and wine become, by the prayer of consecration and the invocation of the Holy Spirit, Christ's Body and Blood through an act appropriately known as transubstantiation. The term emphasizes the conversion of the total substance of bread and wine into the entire substance of the Body and Blood of Christ. When the bread and wine are consecrated at Mass, they are no longer bread and wine; they have become instead the Most Precious Body and Blood of Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit in accordance with the words of Christ. The empirical appearances and attributes remain the same, but the underlying reality changes. Therefore, the doctrine of transubstantiation teaches without ambiguity that in the Holy Communion, the Body and Blood, together with the soul and divinity, of the Lord Jesus Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained. How is this understood and what is its implication theologically? In an attempt to elucidate this problem, this work seeks first to highlight the theology of the Holy Eucharist within the context of the ecclesiology of Communion, and second, through some theological themes: sacred memorial and sacrificial banquet; eschatological meal. The third and final part treats the theme of real presence under the rubrics of Transubstantiation. Keywords: Transubstantiation, Eschatological Meal, Memorial, Real Presence, Communion, Eucharistic conversion.

scholarly journals Towards a Pneumatological-Ecclesiology: Outside the “Two Lungs of the Church”

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-229
Author(s):  
Timothy Lim T.N.
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
The Body ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Protestant Denominations ◽  
The Church

Abstract This paper critiques the framing of the pneumatological underpinning of ecclesiology as an Orthodox-Catholic conversation. The context for the Joint Commission for Orthodox-Catholic dialogue warrants the use of the metaphor “two lungs of the church” by official church leaders, ecclesiologists and theologians to speak of the Spirit’s work in and between both communions. However, I want to call attention to the pneumatological and ecclesiological problems in the use of the image “two lungs of the church.” If the Holy Spirit breathes upon and through the Body of Christ, reading the Spirit’s operation in the church (pneumatological-ecclesiology) cannot ignore, and much less dismiss or absorb (either explicitly or implicitly), the charismas outside of the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodoxy. Protestant denominations, such as Baptists, Brethren, Evangelicals, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and Charismatics are also contexts for studying the Spirit’s work in the churches. The paper concludes by proffering a mapping of recent pneumatological contributions of other Christian denominations and churches to invite theologians to assist in reframing or reconceptualizing a more appropriate anatomic metaphor for the Spirit’s work in and among the churches together.

‘Truth Before Peace’: Manning and Infallibility

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-253
Author(s):  
James Pereiro
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The State ◽  
The Body ◽  
Holy Communion ◽  
Holy Trinity ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Church

On his arrival at Lavington in January 1833 H. E. Manning’s theological baggage fitted neatly into a few short sentences. He summed it up in a letter written to Samuel Wilberforce (October 20, 1850): ‘When I came to Lavington in 1833 I believed, as I always did, in Baptismal Regeneration: I had no view on the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ: and no idea of the Church’. In the recollections of his later ‘Journal’ (1878–82) he described his position at that time in greater detail: ‘The state of my religious belief in 1833 was profound faith in the Holy Trinity and the Incarnation, in the Redemption by the Passion of our Lord, and in the work of the Holy Spirit, and the conversion of the soul. I believed in baptismal regeneration, and in a spiritual, but real, receiving of our Lord in Holy Communion. As to the Church, I had no definite conception’. His evangelical background and piety seems still to have filled most of his religious horizon.

Yahweh, Women, and the Trinity

1975 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-242
Author(s):  
Jay G. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Third Person ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

“Might it not be possible, just at this moment when the fortunes of the church seem to be at low ebb, that we may be entering a new age, an age in which the Holy Spirit will become far more central to the faith, an age when the third person of the Trinity will reveal to us more fully who she is?”

scholarly journals Leitourgia: The Missing Link in Evangelii Gaudium

2018 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-76
Author(s):  
Peter John McGregor
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
Popular Piety ◽  
Lumen Gentium ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Church ◽  
Missing Element

Some especially insightful and challenging passages in Evangelii Gaudium are those on the importance of a personal encounter with Jesus, the evangelizing power of popular piety, person to person witness, and the need for the power of the Holy Spirit. However, in order to do full justice to the mission of the Church, the document requires more on the priestly aspect of this mission. This element is substantially absent, in part, because of Francis’s veneration of Evangelii Nuntiandi. However, this absent element can be obtained from the missiology of Lumen Gentium, John Paul II, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Based on an analysis of the meaning of leitourgia in the New Testament, this article concludes that this missing element can serve as a link between Pope Francis’s kerygma and diakonia, enabling a harmony which has been missing, to greater or lesser degrees, from the Church’s mission in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The Authority of the Holy Spirit

1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-197
Author(s):  
H. F. Woodhouse
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Constitutive Principle ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Inner Light ◽  
The Church

What is the ultimate seat of authority to which Christian theology makes its appeal?' Dr Whale in posing this question says that answers fall into three great and distinctive types. ‘The first type emphasises the authority of the Church’ while ‘the second type emphasises the sole authority of the Bible’ and ‘the third type may be loosely described as mystical—its constitutive principle is the “Inner Light”'.1

Prinsip Pertumbuhan Gereja Mula-Mula Ditinjau Dari Kisah Para Rasul 2:1-47 Dan Aplikasinya Bagi Gereja Masa Kini

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-111
Author(s):  
Ferderika Pertiwi Ndiy ◽  
S Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Church Growth ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Acts Of The Apostles ◽  
Church History ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Church ◽  
Acts 2

Church growth is an important study in church history. The Bible has important principles in church growth, therefore these principles need to be analyzed so that they can contribute to the study of church growth. The Acts of the Apostles is a book that has a history and principles of church growth, therefore the author conducted research on church growth based on Acts 2: 1-47. The author uses a qualitative approach to literature study to find the principles of church growth based on Acts 2: 1-47. The results showed that there were three principles for the growth of the early church. The first principle based on the fourth verse is to depend on the Holy Spirit, the second principle based on verses 14-36, 42 is to preach the Word of God, the third principle based on verses 42-46 is to live in fellowship. For the growth of the church today the church must depend on the power of the Holy Spirit, teaching based on the word of God, and the church lives in fellowship.

Ecclesiology

2019 ◽  
pp. 224-240
Author(s):  
Tom Greggs
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Corporate Body ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Church

This chapter examines Bonhoeffer’s account of the church and advocates that throughout Bonhoeffer’s corpus there remains a desire to explicate the reality of the church in terms of its structural being with and for the other. This structure exists both internally in terms of its members’ relation to each other, and externally as the church relates as a corporate body to the world. The chapter considers Bonhoeffer’s ecclesiological method; the visibility of the church; vicarious representation; the church as the body of Christ; the agency of the Holy Spirit; preaching, the sacraments, and the offices of the church; and the question of the church in a religionless age.

scholarly journals A ação do Espírito Santo na eucaristia. A propósito do nº 1333 do Catecismo da Igreja Católica

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (288) ◽  
pp. 902
Author(s):  
Francisco Taborda
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The Body ◽  
Espírito Santo ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Great Tradition ◽  
Eucharistic Prayer ◽  
Espirito Santo

Iniciando o nº 1333, o Catecismo da Igreja Católica afirma que o pão e o vinho se tornam o corpo e o sangue de Cristo “pelas palavras de Cristo e pela invocação do Espírito Santo”. Esta afirmação constitui um progresso teológico e uma volta à grande tradição, superando a tese vigente na Igreja latina da eficácia exclusiva das palavras da instituição, identificadas como “palavras da consagração”. Esse progresso foi possibilitado pela redescoberta da unidade literária e teológica da anáfora ou oração eucarística que não permite isolar as “palavras da consagração” do contexto oracional em que se inserem. A concepção presente no citado texto do Catecismo volta à tradição conservada durante todo o primeiro milênio do cristianismo, cujos resquícios se podem encontrar inclusive nos inícios da Escolástica. Documentos ecumênicos recentes mostram que a importância da ação do Espírito Santo na eucaristia é patrimônio comum das Igrejas cristãs.Abstract: At the beginning of number 1333, the Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms that the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ “by the words of Christ and the invocation of the Holy Spirit.” This statement is a theological progress and a return to the great tradition, surpassing the thesis prevailing in the Latin Church that affirms the exclusive efficiency of the words of the institution, identified as “words of consecration”. This progress was made possible by the rediscovery of the literary and theological unity of the anaphora or Eucharistic prayer which does not allow the extraction of the “words of consecration” from the clausal context into which they are inserted. The conception prevailing in the Catechism text quoted returns to the tradition maintained throughout the first millennium of Christianity, traces of which can be found even in the beginnings of Scholasticism. Recent ecumenical documents show that the importance of the action of the Holy Spirit in the Eucharist is the common heritage of the Christian Churches.

scholarly journals Teologiczny sens maryjnego tytułu „Gwiazda Zaranna”

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 93-115
Author(s):  
Adam Wojtczak
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
New Era ◽  
Public Activity ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Morning Star ◽  
The Church

The article presents theological meaning of the Marian title “Morning Star”. The article consists of three paragraphs. The first one portrays Mary as the Morning Star that preceded, prepared and heralded the historical coming of the Messiah–Sun. She handed the Light of God to humanity and opened up a new era in history. The second paragraph discusses Mary’s participation in the life and salvific mission of the Son. Before he began talking about himself and his mission, it was her who talked about him. During his public activity, she receded into the background, in order for a new family to grow. Being his Teacher, she later became a Disciple of her Son. The third paragraph introduces the presence of Mary – the Leading Star upon the path of faith of the Church. After the Ascension of Christ, she is found at the Cenacle among his disciples so as to prepare the descent of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the Church. Since then she has been leading the Church towards the ultimate goal. She does so in a twofold way. For the pilgrims, she is a model of faith, hope and love. She is also the spiritual Mother of all humanity. They plead with her for her motherly intercession upon the path of faith. All in all, it turns out that Mary-Morning Star is a reflection of Christ and she praises him, not herself.

scholarly journals Sisi Gelap Kepemimpinan Pentakostal-Karismatik

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Minggus M. Pranoto
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
The Body ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Church ◽  
Theological Concept

Abstract This article highlights a critical question: why is Pentecostal-Charismatic leadership vulnerable to various scandals? This model of leadership often exposes the dark side of leadership characterized by the issues of money, sex, and power. This study suggests that Pentecostal-Charismatic leaders are often trapped in the model of personalized charismatic leadership that is based on misinterpretation of the doctrine of being Spirit-filled. The method used in this article is that of practical theology relating the framework of socialized charismatic leadership to the theological concept of the church (ekklesia) as the body of Christ and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.   Abstrak Tulisan ini menyoroti pertanyaan kritis: mengapa kepemimpinan Pentakostal-Karismatik rentan terkena berbagai skandal? Model kepemimpinan ini acap kali memunculkan sisi gelap kepemimpinan yang ditandai oleh masalah-masalah keuangan, seksual, dan kekuasaan. Kajian ini mengungkapkan bahwa para pemimpin Pentakostal-Karismatik seringkali terjebak dalam model personalized charismatic leadership yang didasari oleh penafsiran yang keliru atas doktrin being Spirit-filled. Metode tulisan ini termasuk dalam ranah teologi praktis yang mengaitkan kerangka berpikir socialized charismatic leadership dengan konsep teologis tentang gereja (ekklesia) sebagai tubuh Kristus dan persekutuan Roh Kudus.

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