Talk:Eucharistic theology

Merging with Transubstantiation
To all those interested, in this group. This article, while seeming well, should probably merged with transubstantiation. Please all tell me what you think.

This article, if it is to stand as an independent article, needs a lot of work.

I don't think it ought to be merged with "Transubstantiation," because that is one of several doctrines or theories, concerning eucharistic theology. Were it not that the transubstantiation article is much fuller and more complete than this one, I would suggest a reverse merger.

It certainly ought to be placed in with the series on Communion, and I wonder whether, if a merger is appropriate, the proper merger is with "Eucharist," which is a very full and complete article, needing "touch-ups," not major revision.--Deaconse 12:50, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I would be concerned about the length of the resulting article in merging it with a main article on the subject. If it is properly linked to the main article(s), then there is not need to merge them. IMHO--Drboisclair (talk) 15:47, 3 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose: Transubstantiation is one philosophical interpretation of the little itty-bitty part of the eucharist where the priests makes some handwavering, lifts and breaks the bread (repeat for blood), what happens then? Rome-Catholics claim it turns into jesusblood and jesusmeat, while retaining all objective qualities of wine and bread. The other Christians all have their own counterparting logical somersault stories that are constructed to be incompatible to the Rome-Catholic one. Rursus dixit. ( m bork3 !) 20:25, 16 May 2010 (UTC)


 * This article seems to be a series of useful and related stubs each of which provides an overview of a particular area within the main title. I think there is a legitimate place for this type of article in that it provides basic information within a convenient space and indicates where fuller details can be found.  I'd keep it, even tho' some sections might need a bit of work--Jpacobb (talk) 03:43, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Symbolism
Symbolism-forbidding mysticists apart, has there been any enhanced analysis on what the bread and wine symbolizes? The bible says that the wine symbolises the new covenant and that it is blood shedded for the forgiveness of the sins of many, but why is blood connected to a new covenant? (Don't answer me, enhance the article, if it is not elsewhere in Wikipedia!) The bible is unclear exactly on what the body symbolises (not "meat" in bible), except something about Jesus sacrificing his body. It seems Christians (other than me) battles like idiots about some underlying non-Christian philosophical interpretation, while not caring very much about the symbolic content and logic of the rite. Rursus dixit. ( m bork3 !) 20:38, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Eucharistic Sacrifice?
The article is headed "Eucharistic Theology", but it almost the only theological subject mentioned with Eucharistic Presence What about Eucharistic Sacrifice?

Are the descriptions of rites really part of this article? Some look good to me but feel out of place here--Jpacobb (talk) 00:52, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Merge discussion
This articles seems obviously WP:content forked with Eucharistic theologies summarised. Please discuss strategies for merging. A discussion was started last year at talk:Eucharistic theologies summarised, but the discussion should happen here because this is the logical page to merge to. In that discussion, it was suggested that Eucharist, Real presence, Eucharistic theology, and Eucharistic theologies summarised all be merged, but it seems wise to start with these two pages and then perhaps all four could be merged. JFHutson (talk) 16:58, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support Esoglou (talk) 20:07, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

OK, this seems obvious and I think enough time has passed for interested parties to object. I'm just going to start trying to find each bulleted Eucharistic theologies summarised item in Eucharistic theology, delete it if I find it and copy it if I don't. Feel free to help. JFHutson (talk) 18:38, 26 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I am in full agreement with the merging of Eucharistic theologies summarised into Eucharistic theology However, this article fails to cover the whole scope of the subject adequately.  The important World Council of Churches Document "Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry" deals with the Eucharist under five theological heads: Thanksgiving to the Father, Memorial of Christ, Invocation of the Spirit, Communion of the Faithful, and Meal of the Kingdom.  "Memorial" here covers both the complicated themes of Eucharistic Presence and Eucharistic Sacrifice.  Individual authors have different schemes, but most if not all would fit under the six heads obtained by splitting Memorial into its component parts.  Completing the article on Eucharistic theology to cover the whole subject adequately while maintaining the present level of information would probably double its present length at least.  I suggest that the most practical overall structure for the family of articles on Eucharist would be:


 * "Eucharist" as the general overview
 * Three more specialised articles: "Origins of", "Theology", "Liturgy"
 * Detailed articles at least on "Eucharistic Presence" and "Eucharistic Sacrifice" in support of the theology article and probably on "Consecration prayers" in support of "Liturgy"

Obviously there would need to be parallel articles on the positions of different churches in addition. Jpacobb (talk) 17:55, 3 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Frankly, I don't think there is that much to say encyclopedically about the theology of the Eucharist besides issues surrounding real presence, but please feel free to add material on the subjects you mention. --JFHutson (talk) 20:14, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I know that the old and highly regarded Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics is available online through archive.org and possibly elsewhere, and I think it probably has, under various article titles, quite a bit of information regarding this subject. I can check it myself, if such is requested, as I know that it can be a real pain to find material in the downloads, which are currently, so far as I can tell, only available in 'single-volume' format. Those are freaking huge single volume files. Otherwise, having not to date actually checked that source, or others, I can't see any real objections to the proposal, other than maybe, and this is just a maybe, an article on the History of eucharistic theology or something similar. And, maybe, if we find in that, or other reference sources, that somehow they contain a great body of material not yet adequately covered by the above, maybe additional spinouts if required, somewhere down the road. John Carter (talk) 16:43, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Another merge discussion, this time Real presence
I think the next step for this article is to merge with Real presence. Eucharistic theology probably has more in it about real presence than real presence, creating a REDUNDANTFORK. If these two articles were merged, even without cutting redundant material, we would have 46 kb of readable prose size, which is not too big. This article is not a SUMMARY, because the vast majority of it is on real presence, and the real presence material could be incorporated without making the article too big. --JFHutson (talk) 20:14, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Jpacobb said, immediately above, that there should be a detailed article on "Eucharistic presence", which is precisely what the article on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist is about. Accordingly, it would be enough to have in the present article a summary of that aspect.  Esoglou (talk) 09:57, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Spectrum diagram
I appreciate the laudable boldness of Noblethrasher, but I think the diagram added needs radical revision before it can be accepted as a reliably sourced contribution. The "real presence" view is by no means limited to "many Anglicans and Methodists". It is the view principally of Catholics and Orthodox. If Calvinists etc. consider a spiritual presence to be real, it includes even them, but that is not what Catholics and Orthodox mean by "real presence" in this context. "Literally become" is a less precise description than "objectively become" or "actually become" for the belief of Catholics and Orthodox. These hold that the bread and wine "become" the body and blood of Christ; others may go no more than to say that they "are" the body and blood of Christ. Esoglou (talk) 20:20, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

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Suspension
Explanation: when adding citations in this section, I noticed that Cornelius Stam stated his belief in observing the Lord's supper. Therefore, I removed his name as an example of the proponents of the suspension or adeipnonism viewpoint. Rlvaughn (talk) 01:32, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Overview section wording
The overview section is worded oddly, stating various views as fact, and only then stating who holds these views. If there is no objection, I would like to reverse this ordering and phrase these views in typical fashion, eg. Quakers believe that... Sondra.kinsey (talk) 18:29, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

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