The Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist

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The Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist is a 19th-century Anglican theological treatise by Robert Wilberforce that offers a detailed and influential defense of the Catholic doctrine of Christ’s real presence in the Eucharist within an Anglican framework.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Anglican theological work
book
theological treatise
addresses authority of the early Church Fathers
interpretation of the Thirty-Nine Articles
relationship between Scripture and tradition in sacramental doctrine
aimsTo defend Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist within Anglicanism
reconcile Anglican formularies with Catholic Eucharistic teaching
associatedWith Anglo-Catholicism
surface form: Anglo-Catholic movement

Catholic revival in the Church of England
author Robert Wilberforce
centuryOfPublication 19th century
confessionalContext Church of England
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
genre dogmatic theology
polemical theology
hasTheologicalPositionOn Eucharistic adoration
Eucharistic sacrifice
communion of the faithful
relation of Eucharist to the Incarnation
historicalContext 19th-century Anglican controversies over the Eucharist
post–Oxford Movement Anglicanism
influenced 19th-century Anglican sacramental theology
Anglo-Catholic Eucharistic doctrine
influencedBy Catholic Eucharistic theology
Anglo-Catholicism
surface form: Oxford Movement

Patristic theology
Tractarianism
language English
mainSubject Holy Eucharist
surface form: Eucharist

real presence of Christ in the Eucharist
notableFor extensive use of patristic sources
influence on later Anglo-Catholic sacramental thought
systematic defense of real presence in Anglican theology
opposesDoctrine Zwinglian memorialism
purely symbolic view of the Eucharist
religiousTradition Anglicanism (broadly)
surface form: Anglicanism
supportsDoctrine objective efficacy of the sacraments
real presence
sacramental grace
theologicalFocus nature of Christ’s presence in the Eucharist
relation between sign and thing signified in the sacrament
sacrifice of the Eucharist
union with Christ through the sacrament
theologicalOrientation Anglo-Catholicism
surface form: Anglo-Catholic

Anglo-Catholicism
surface form: High Church Anglican

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Robert Wilberforce notableWork The Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist
Robert Wilberforce notableWork The Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist
this entity surface form: The Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist and the Sacrifice of the Mass