Posted on March 10, 2020 by admin
Conclusions
My conclusions, then, on what we retrieve?
- Recover the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist as a sacrifice in which we share Christ’s agency, and as the locus of the continued institution of the Church as ‘body of Christ’;
- Discard the rationalist nonsense of transubstantiation; it’s a mediaeval response to an entirely mediaeval question, and its overwhelmingly ‘rationalist’ tone is completely alien to a properly anagogical understanding of the sacrament.
- Don’t worry too much about the precise mode of Eucharistic presence. But if you can’t help doing so, then focus on recovering, with de Lubac, Dix et al., a proper understanding of the symbolic worldview of the Patristic age, and don’t waste time on Aquinas.
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