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Two examples with a sacramental tendency summarize this approach. One of them is the Mennonite Brethren Confession of Faith of 1902: “[I]n partaking of the Lord’s supper they may be fed with the body and blood of Christ, thus to partake of all His sufferings and his merits . . .” (Howard Loewen, One Lord, One Church, One Hope and One God (Elkhart: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 1985), 170. The other example is from the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective: “The supper re-presents the presence of the risen Christ in the church. As we partake of the communion of the bread and cup, the gathered body of believers shares in the body and blood of Christ . . . ” (Scottdale, PA: Herald, 1995), 50. Oscar Cullmann and F. J. Leenhardt, Essays on the Lord’s Supper (Atlanta: John Knox, 1958), 24–86. Leenhardt, 45, 49. Ibid., 52–55. Ibid., 54. The Eucharist (London: Sheed and Ward, 1968), 21. Schillebeeckx, 47. Ibid., 78. Ibid., 108–117. Ibid., 118–151. See Sermon 272. For background, see John Rempel, “Critically Appropriating Tradition: Pilgram Marpeck’s Experiments in Corrective Theologizing,” Mennonite Quarterly Review (January 2011): 59–76. Walter Klaassen et al., trans. The Later Writings of Pilgram Marpeck (Kitchener, ON: Pandora, 1999), 85, 113–119. William Klassen and Walter Klaasen, trans. and eds., The Writings of Pilgram Marpeck (Kitchener, ON: Herald, 1978), 73–88. Later Writings, 102 and passim. Cyril Richardson, Zwingli and Cranmer on the Eucharist (Evanston IL: Seabury-Western Seminary, 1949), 24, 28. Richardson, Zwingli, 28–43. Ibid., 38–45. The Eucharist and Ecumenism: Let Us Keep the Feast (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) and see the book symposium on Husinger’s book in Pro Ecclesia 19, no. 3 (2010). Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry, Faith and Order Paper 111 (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1982), 11. Ibid., 12. Ibid., 12. Ibid., 13. Ibid., 13. Ibid., 14–15. Hunsinger, 41. Ibid., 79–80, quoted from God Is near Us: the Eucharist, the Heart of Life (San Francisco: Ignatius, 2003), 86. Ibid., 77. Ibid., 60–71. Ibid., 72. Ibid., 253–263. Ibid., 276. Ibid., 281–291.
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