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Cranmer's Eucharistic theology was designed to make sure people did not think that there was any physical presence of Christ in the elements of bread and wine, as Catholics believed. He designed his 1552 communion service to make it clear that Christ was only present to those communicants who had faith in him, and faith could not be earned by any human being; it was a predestined gift of God to those to whom he chose to give it. For example, he associated the medieval stone altar with the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation. Therefore, he called on priests to replace the altar with a wooden table as a means of irradiating belief in transubstantiation. High Church Anglicans later revised the service to make it more sacramental and more acceptable to Lutherans in Europe, who could help England militarily.
Cranmer's Eucharistic theology was designed to make sure people did not think that there was any physical presence of Christ in the elements of bread and wine, as Catholics believed. He designed his 1552 communion service to make it clear that Christ was only present to those communicants who had faith in him, and faith could not be earned by any human being; it was a predestined gift of God to those to whom he chose to give it. For example, he associated the medieval stone altar with the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation. Therefore, he called on priests to replace the altar with a wooden table as a means of irradiating belief in transubstantiation. High Church Anglicans later revised the service to make it more sacramental and more acceptable to Lutherans in Europe, who could help England militarily.
Cranmer wrote voluminously on the Eucharist. His prayer book of 1549 reflected Lutheran doctrine; the revised prayer book of 1552 tended to be Zwinglian. Cranmer held to the 9th-century Ratramnus doctrine of the Eucharist: while the communicant eats the elements, which remain unchanged, his soul feeds upon the spiritual Christ.
Cranmer wrote voluminously on the Eucharist. His prayer book of 1549 reflected Lutheran doctrine; the revised prayer book of 1552 tended to be Zwinglian. Cranmer held to the 9th century Ratramnus doctrine of the Eucharist: while the communicant eats the elements, which remain unchanged, his soul feeds upon the spiritual Christ.
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