Article 28: Of the Lord's Supper (Pt. 1)

On this month's episode, our daring hosts continue their journey through the formularies of the Anglican Way with a discussion of the Thirty-Nine Articles. Steven and Richard work through Article 28. What is the Lord's Supper? Do Anglicans believe in the Real Presence? How does Article 28 work in concert with the relevant Biblical texts? All these topics and more will be discussed with levity and charity.

Notes:

https://northamanglican.com/exposition-of-the-thirty-nine-articles-article-xxviii-part-1

https://northamanglican.com/an-exposition-of-the-thirty-nine-articles-article-xxviii-part-2

Five sources for learning more about Anglican eucharistic theology:

1. Richard Hooker

This edition is in modern English and here, or in the wonderful original, it beautifully illustrates the main Anglican position.

https://amazon.com/Word-Made-Flesh-Christology-Protestantism/dp/1949716333/ref=sr_1_2?sr=8-2

2. Thomas Cranmer

This e-text is from the chief composer and editor of the Book of Common Prayer.

https://newwhitchurch.press/cranmer/supper

3. John Jewell

A patron of Hooker, his 'Apology for the Church of England' was required to be kept in Anglican churches for hundreds of years. This is his important work on the sacraments.

https://anglican.net/works/john-jewel-a-treatise-of-the-sacraments-1583/

4. Peter Martyr Vermigli

The Italian reformer who taught Jewell when Cranmer and others brought Vermigli to England to teach theology at Oxford. He had a role in editing the prayer book and maybe even wrote one of the prayer book exhortations.

https://davenantinstitute.org/oxford-treatise/

5. Torrance Kirby

Probably the leading expert on Hooker in the world writes a great article on the subject of the Eucharist. (When meeting in person he used this wonderful phrase to describe Hooker's eucharistic understanding: 'Real Instrumental Presence'.

https://anglicanway.org/richard-hookers-transubstantiation/