Eucharist or Lord's Supper? The Controversy Then and Now | Prof. Bruce Marshall
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🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This lecture was given on February 3rd, 2024, at the Dominican House of Studies.
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About the Speaker:
Prof. Bruce Marshall (Southern Methodist University) is the Lehman Professor of Christian Doctrine at Southern Methodist University. He holds a masters from Yale Divinity School and a doctorate from Yale University. His teaching interests include medieval and reformation theology and systematic theology. His research interests include doctrine of the Trinity, christology, philosophical issues in theology, sacramental theology, and Judaism and Christian theology.
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| 0:29.1 | Eucharist or Lord's Supper? |
| 0:31.1 | The controversy then and now. |
| 0:33.4 | It's mostly then, but there'll be a little bit of now |
| 0:36.4 | at the end and certainly also in the |
| 0:39.8 | discussion. |
| 0:43.4 | Yesterday evening, I was planning to talk about the Council of Trent and as I pretty much |
| 0:49.2 | expected ran out of time before I could get to that. |
| 0:51.3 | I just want to emphasize the importance of the Council |
| 0:54.8 | of Trent, which I will discuss in some detail regarding the Eucharist. The importance of the |
| 1:00.2 | Council of Trent in the 16th century, in Catholic history, it's one of the really formative |
| 1:06.6 | events of the Catholic tradition. |
| 1:17.5 | And it's a fundamental point that needs to be remembered about the Council of Friends is that it was not simply a response to Protestant. |
| 1:24.1 | The term counter-reformation, which is now, I think, rightly out of favor with historian, |
| 1:29.3 | suggests that and reads the Council of Trent as though, |
| 1:35.3 | you had Protestantism and the Calverture sort of went on as though it could continue with its same business. |
| 1:47.0 | And then at some point the Catholic society, well, we have to counter this. |
| 1:53.0 | We have to have a council that will oppose Protestant. |
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