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Title of Article

ENGLISH RELIGIOUS REFORMERS OF THE 16-th CENTURY ON THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST


Issue
5
Date
2021

Article type
scientific article
UDC
94(410)
Pages
59-65
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Authors
Chugunova T.G.
Nizhegorodskiy gosudarstvennyy pedagogicheskiy universitet im. K. Minina


Abstract
The article analyzes the interpretation of the Eucharist?s sacrament by European reformers, primarily English - William Tyndale (1494-1536) and John Frith (1503-1533). After conducting a hermeneutic analysis of the texts of thinkers, the author of the article notes the adherence of the reformers to the symbolic interpretation of the sacrament of the Eucharist, on which the Eucharistic theology of their precursor, the Oxford theologian John Wyclif (1320 / 1324-1384) is based.It is noted that Tyndale and Frith denied the real transubstantiation of bread and wine into the most pure Body and Blood of Christ, arguing that Christ did not sanctify bread during the Last Supper, but simply broke it and gave it to his disciples. Аccording to the author of the article, the reformers emphasized that the Lord once sacrificed himself in the form of a crucifixion, and did not sacrifice himself during the Last Supper, where he only hinted about the coming event. Tyndale and Frith pointed to the allegorical meaning of the phrase “This is My Body ... this is My Blood” (Matt. 26:26), because Christ often used figurative phrases, for example: “I am the bread of life” (John 6:36), “I am the true vine” (John 15:1), etc. The article also notes that, according to the English reformers, the material interpretation of the sacrament of the Eucharist leads the laity to idolatry. In conclusion, the author emphasizes that Protestant theologians were in search and some of them did not deny a different approach to solving this problem.

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