RT Article
T1 Tokens of Presence: Second-Personal Presence and Baptistic Accounts of the Eucharist
JF Pro ecclesia
VO 31
IS 1
SP 49
OP 72
A1 Hill, Daniel Lee
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1799693589
AB This paper attempts to provide a bridge between the two predominant Baptistic accounts of divine presence in Eucharist, with the help of Eleonore Stump’s account of second-personal presence and theories of emergence. Predominantly understood in either Zwinglian (memorialist) or Reformed (instrumentalist) categories, a dividing wall is erected with baptistic theology over the question of whether or not communion is strictly an act of human remembrance or involves divine presence in some form or fashion. After identifying three key problems with the memorialist account, this paper attempts to provide a middle way between the two views, arguing that the Spirit appropriates the bread and wine as tokens through which he communicates the thoughts, intentions, desires, and second-personal presence of Christ to the gathered body in order to strengthen the church's union with Christ.
K1 Emergence
K1 Divine Presence
K1 Communion
K1 Eucharist
K1 Lord’s supper
K1 Baptist theology
DO 10.1177/10638512211050938