Category Archives: Review

But what about transubstantiation? But now we come to the Eucharistic issue that, regrettably in my view, has tended – and still tends – to dominate discussions of this subject on both: the first issue, by Feingold’s classification, namely that … Continue reading →

PART ONE: WHAT WE NEED TO RETRIEVE In this blog, I’m interested in using a confrontation of Roman Catholic texts on Eucharist theology (de Lubac, Corpus Mysticum; Feingold, The Eucharist; Ratzinger, The Spirit of the Liturgy) to discern elements of … Continue reading →

However, there is one important issue where I am tempted – perhaps mistakenly – not to follow Feingold & Ratzinger. I cannot understand why more is not made in mainstream Catholic theologians I have read of the Eucharistic role of … Continue reading →

HOW IS THE EUCHARIST A SACRIFICE? PART TWO: WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT? School textbooks – especially history ones – can provide a remarkably telling insight into another culture.  For me, as a non-Catholic keen to discover … Continue reading →

WHY I’M NOT ALTOGETHER WON OVER If Christians really believed what we were supposed to believe about hell, we ‘would be driven ceaselessly around the world in a desperate frenzy of evangelism, seeking to save as many souls from the … Continue reading →

An Evangelical overwhelmed by the Eucharistic theology of Dix and Schmemann (D&S) and all it implies.  That’s my own position.  How I would like to discover a distillation – a ‘sound-bite’ presentation of this theology – simple enough to share … Continue reading →

MacGregor’s Religion: on Museums and Book-Museums The Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford is a museum like no other.  This is because the interest of this collection of objects from archaic cultures lies at least as much, if not more, in the … Continue reading →

AGAINST BRITISH VALUES: THE REVENGE OF THE RIGHTEOUS MIND Maybe I don’t even belong to this nation (UK) any more ….  Because, no, I couldn’t whole-heartedly claim to endorse the priority apparently accorded to the ‘five fundamentals’ singled out by … Continue reading →