{"title":"The Lord’s Supper: A Personal Journey Through a Confusing Ecclesial Landscape","authors":"John E. Colwell","doi":"10.1080/0005576X.2021.2004789","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Beginning with a series of personal anecdotes the essay offers a broad outline of English Baptist understandings and practices of Holy Communion, tracing the move from the language of sacrament and a confidence in Christ’s real presence to a more memorialist notion of the rite. This historical development forms the background and contrast to the author’s reflection on personal experience of the rite as celebrated in English Baptist churches and the development of the author’s own sacramental c.","PeriodicalId":39857,"journal":{"name":"The Baptist quarterly","volume":"32 1","pages":"51 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Baptist quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576X.2021.2004789","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Beginning with a series of personal anecdotes the essay offers a broad outline of English Baptist understandings and practices of Holy Communion, tracing the move from the language of sacrament and a confidence in Christ’s real presence to a more memorialist notion of the rite. This historical development forms the background and contrast to the author’s reflection on personal experience of the rite as celebrated in English Baptist churches and the development of the author’s own sacramental c.