... neither neat nor harmonious. These ranged from the presence-­oriented doctrines of Roman Catholic transubstantiation and Lutheran consubstantiation, to the theologies of spiritual (as opposed to carnal) eating in the writings of Jean Calvin, to the memorial and symbolist positions of Ulrich...

... English Play of the Sacrament eucharistic theology transubstantiation scientific empiricism devotional perception Medieval devotional drama, it is often remarked, employs the resources of theater in order to render doctrinal or theological abstractions concrete. As Greg Walker puts it, drama...

... , 11. 32 Watkins and Jenkins, 415. [email protected] © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Thomas More theology of transubstantiation body of Christ human virtue translation of scripture ...

..., Spring 2003. Copyright © by Duke University Press / 2003 / $2.00. phase, but the introduction insists that New Historicism cannot be formu- lated in terms of a theoretical position or methodological directives let alone as an instantiation of a determinate ideology or theology...

... in the Mass as a sacrifice). He did think that it was an abuse to make a particular theory a matter of necessary belief. He thought this theory (transubstantiation) bad philosophy (a misuse and mis- reading of Aristotle), bad scriptural exegesis, and bad theology, but his point...

... Church’s reformed communion still retains a version of presence and is utterly opposed to a bare memorialism.12 Whereas the Anglican liturgy’s canon of the Mass is to be distinguished firmly against any understanding of transubstantiation, it retains at its heart a version of presence. The words...

... The Reverend Dodgson’s imagery of bodily trans- formation here captures something of the genuine strangeness of belief in transubstantiation at least when, as in the later Middle Ages, it is socially normative, a major criterion of orthodoxy and therefore compulsory. The Body of Christ is the sum...

... many different things in different cultures and across a wide range of discourses from logic to lyric poetry, theology to politics. While no one, for example, is born a Christian in the European early Middle Ages, conversion indicated the entry into a specific form of Christian life: monas- tic...

... conversio) signifies a rever- sal, a change of direction. Yet the change or turnaround that is conversion has meant many different things in different cultures and across a wide range of discourses from logic to lyric poetry, theology to politics. While no one, for example, was born a Christian...

... we might call superstition; why is it so easily classed with stories about unbelief? With- out addressing these questions, a recent study has offered useful terms for formulating an answer. In Wonderful Blood, Caroline Walker Bynum finds beneath debates about the theology of transubstantiation...

..., but the Jews of the play also can be read as Christian doubters of transubstantiation, opening up the potential of medieval and Reformation-­ era Christian identification with their doubts.3 The play also offers through its props visible, tangible “proof” of transubstantiation, the miracle which insists...

... Queen’s College, CUNY Flushing, New York Leprosy in medieval Europe was a symbolically charged phenomenon that generated complex and often contradictory responses from medical science, theology, and popular culture. Although incidences of leprosy were negli- gible...

... the surrounding forest shaped sacred objects in and around the rural healing chapel. The ecological characteristics of healing waters intersected with understandings of the salvific theology of the blood of Christ; the hewn ecology of the oak jubé or rood screen framed the ontological complexity of Christ’s human...

... of election (faith), and economic activity thus attains a spiritual meaning.9 Even Tawney, who insists on the social and economic conservatism of early Reformers (essen- tially their investment in the three estate-­model and its ideal of mutuality), suggests, like Weber, that Protestant theology...

.... So, for example, patristic writers are carefully reread in the Reformation, reread in modern editions and applied to current struggles in theology, ecclesiology, and poli- tics. One can think of the role of Augustine (so massively prominent in Cal- vin’s Institutes) or of the Greek theologians...

... as eas- ily understood in terms of its tendency to relocate and reinvent itself in new spaces of imagined potentiality. Philip Sheldrake points out that at the heart of Christian theology, and therefore spirituality, is an invitation to enter a new world. Here and now, we are invited...

... of Bonner’s effort to mount a public defense of conservative theology.26 Centered on the Eucharist, they anticipated Bonner’s own 1549 sermon on transubstantiation, which was responsible for the bishop’s imprisonment in the Marshalsea throughout the reign of Edward. Before Bonner’s notorious...

... distinction.20 Zanchi was entirely typical among many Protestant reformers who, while differing from their Catholic pugilists regarding papal authority, Eucharistic theology (especially in their repudiation of transubstantiation), and clerical celibacy, agreed with the majoritarian Catholic theologians...

... surrounding magic. Appreciation of the links between the complex and nuanced realms of late medieval theology and natural philosophy illus- trates how charms were a point of negotiation between conflicted knowledge systems and hierarchies. This is not to say that scholars should cast magic aside...

... in 1619 Fletcher and Massinger's Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt Synod of Dort English Reformed theology international politics In May 1619, the eyes and ears of Londoners were fixed on news from abroad. With the German electors preparing to crown a new Holy Roman emperor...