Thicken your theology of the Lord’s Supper

Taste and See That the Lord’s Supper Is Good A biblical understanding of food whets our appetite for the fullness of the Lord's Supper on Maundy Thursday. Peter Leithart

Evangelicals need to thicken our theology of the Lord’s Supper, first by drawing more of the Bible into the discussion of the Supper, and second by drawing more of the Supper into discussion of the Supper. Even a fine recent treatment of Reformed sacramental theology, Todd Billings’s Remembrance, Communion, and Hope, is still too thin on both counts. Billings does discuss the key New Testament passages—the institution narratives, Jesus’ resurrection meals, 1 Corinthians 10-11—and ...

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