A Companion to the Eucharist in the Reformation

539 Pages·2013·16.398 MB·English

by  Lee Palmer Wandel

A Companion to the Eucharist
in the Reformation
Brill’s Companions to the
Christian Tradition
A series of handbooks and reference works
on the intellectual and religious life of Europe,
500–1800
Editor-in-Chief
Christopher M. Bellitto
(Kean University)
VOLUME 46
The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bcct
A Companion to the Eucharist
in the Reformation
Edited by
Lee Palmer Wandel
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2014
Cover illustration: Chalice and Paten, Wiggenhall St. Germans, Norfolk, England
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A companion to the eucharist in the Reformation / edited by Lee Palmer Wandel.
  pages cm. — (Brill’s companions to the Christian tradition, ISSN 1871-6377 ; VOLUME 46)
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ISBN 978-90-04-20410-2 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-26017-7 (e-book) 1. Lord’s
Supper—History—16th century. 2. Christianity and culture—History—16th century. I. Wandel,
Lee Palmer, editor of compilation.
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations  .......................................................................................... ix
Notes on Contributors  ................................................................................... xv
Key Names  ........................................................................................................ xix
Introduction  ..................................................................................................... 1
Lee Palmer Wandel
PART ONE
THEOLOGY
The Medieval Inheritance  ............................................................................ 15
Gary Macy
Martin Luther  ................................................................................................... 39
Volker Leppin
Huldrych Zwingli and Heinrich Bullinger  ............................................... 57
Carrie Euler
Martin Bucer  .................................................................................................... 75
Nicholas Thompson
John Calvin  ....................................................................................................... 97
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Anabaptist Theologies of the Eucharist  ................................................... 115
John D. Rempel
Anglican Theologies of the Eucharist  ....................................................... 139
James F. Turrell
The Council of Trent  ...................................................................................... 159
Robert J. Daly, S.J.
vi contents
PART TWO
LITURGICAL PRACTICES
Catholic Liturgies of the Eucharist in the Time of Reform  ............... 185
Isabelle Brian
From Sacrifice to Supper: Eucharist Practice in the Lutheran
Reformation  ................................................................................................. 205
Thomas H. Schattauer
Reformed Liturgical Practices  ..................................................................... 231
Raymond A. Mentzer
Anabaptist Liturgical Practices  ................................................................... 251
Michele Zelinsky Hanson
Anglican Liturgical Practices  ....................................................................... 273
James F. Turrell
The Spanish New World  ............................................................................... 293
Jaime Lara
PART THREE
SITES OF THE EUCHARIST
Sites of the Eucharist  ..................................................................................... 323
Andrew Spicer
PART FOUR
THE ART OF THE LITURGY
A View of the Eucharist on the Eve of the Protestant
Reformation  ................................................................................................. 365
Achim Timmermann
contents vii
The Lutheran Tradition  ................................................................................ 399
Birgit Ulrike Münch
Reformed  ........................................................................................................... 423
Andreas Gormans
PART FIVE
THE EUCHARIST AND SOUND
The Sounds of Eucharistic Culture  ............................................................ 445
Alexander J. Fisher
PART SIX
THE IMPORT OF THE EUCHARIST
Sacramental Poetics  ....................................................................................... 469
Regina M. Schwartz
Enlightenment Aesthetics and the Eucharistic Sign:
Lessing’s Laocoön  ....................................................................................... 489
Christopher Wild
Bibliography  ..................................................................................................... 509
Index  ................................................................................................................... 515

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Raymond Mentzer, Liturgical Practices: The Reformed Tradition
1. Communion token from the Agenais (Courtesy of the
Bibliothèque de la Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme
Français)  ..................................................................................................... 240
2. Avontmaal des Heeren. [frontispiece from Het Rechte gebruyck
van des Heeren H. Avontmael des Heeren (Amsterdam, 1714).
Courtesy of the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies.]   247
Jaime Lara, The Spanish New World
1. Diego Valadés, Rhetorica christiana (1579). Aztec human
sacrifice and ritual cannibalism. (Courtesy of the Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)  ................... 300
2. Valadés, Rhetorica christiana. Idealized Franciscan conversion
center/atrium  ............................................................................................ 302
3. Detail of Figure 2. Sacramental portico  ............................................ 303
4. Feather mosaic, c. 1539. “The Mass of St. Gregory.” ([Courtesy
of the Musée d’Auch, Gers, France)  ................................................... 306
5. Franciscan atrial cross with inserted obsidian mirror. (Photo
by author)  .................................................................................................. 308
6. Detail of an atrial cross with Eucharistic host and chalice.
(Photo by author)  .................................................................................... 309
7. Franciscan atrial cross with cuauhxicalli vessel (for human
hearts) inserted in the altar-base. (Photo by author) .................... 310
8. Generic Mexican conversion center with church, friary, atrium,
open-air chapel with tabernacle, and four stational chapels.
(George Kubler Archives, Yale University)  ...................................... 312
9. Crucifixion sculpture made from corn husks and corn paste.
(Photo by author)  .................................................................................... 314
10. Indian chapel. Mural painting depicting right and wrong
worship. (Photo by author)  .................................................................. 316
11. Colonial pictographic catechism, MS Egerton 2898. (The British
Library. Used with permission)  ........................................................... 317
12. Codex Tlaltelolco, colonial almanac. Events of 1565 celebrating
the donation of a eucharistic tabernacle. (Biblioteca Nacional
de Antropología e Historia, Mexico. Used with permission)  ..... 319