Radbertus Vs Eucharist
1. Compare and contrast the positions of Radbertus, Ratramnus, and Berengar of Tours on the Eucharist.
The controversy regarding the Eucharist as we learned in class, happened in the middle of the ninth century. One party in the controversy was Radbertus Paschasius, who become a teacher at the monastery of Corbie.
In his book entitled “The Lord’s Body and Blood” he expressed his position on: the relationship between the historical body of Christ and the body in the Eucharist; the nature of the bread and wine before and after consecration; and the relationship between the sacramental signs and the things signified.
Radbertus idea was, that the body of Christ in the sacrament is the same body of Christ which suffered and died. He explain his position by appealing to the power of God to manipulate nature, the …show more content…
This happen when the priest invoke the Holy Spirit, using the epiclesis gesture (The Spirt come symbolically from their hands), so when the priest said: “this is my body and my blood” transubstantiation occurs by the word works (operatis, operanto).
2. Discuss Scholastic thought concerning the Eucharist including a discussion of particular practices which inform later practices in the West.
In order to answer this question, is necessary to understand the event the traders brought with them, a fierce plague that swept through Europe from 1348 to 1352. This pandemic, which killed approximately half of Europe’s population, came to be known as the Black Death.
The disease was bubonic plague, present in two forms: one that infected the bloodstream, causing the buboes and internal bleeding, and was spread by contact; and a second, more virulent pneumonic type that infected the lungs and was spread by respiratory
The controversy regarding the Eucharist as we learned in class, happened in the middle of the ninth century. One party in the controversy was Radbertus Paschasius, who become a teacher at the monastery of Corbie.
In his book entitled “The Lord’s Body and Blood” he expressed his position on: the relationship between the historical body of Christ and the body in the Eucharist; the nature of the bread and wine before and after consecration; and the relationship between the sacramental signs and the things signified.
Radbertus idea was, that the body of Christ in the sacrament is the same body of Christ which suffered and died. He explain his position by appealing to the power of God to manipulate nature, the …show more content…
This happen when the priest invoke the Holy Spirit, using the epiclesis gesture (The Spirt come symbolically from their hands), so when the priest said: “this is my body and my blood” transubstantiation occurs by the word works (operatis, operanto).
2. Discuss Scholastic thought concerning the Eucharist including a discussion of particular practices which inform later practices in the West.
In order to answer this question, is necessary to understand the event the traders brought with them, a fierce plague that swept through Europe from 1348 to 1352. This pandemic, which killed approximately half of Europe’s population, came to be known as the Black Death.
The disease was bubonic plague, present in two forms: one that infected the bloodstream, causing the buboes and internal bleeding, and was spread by contact; and a second, more virulent pneumonic type that infected the lungs and was spread by respiratory