[Springfield Reformer]

”To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.”—Cardinal John Henry Newman

Newman was wrong. But that's always possible when one is a mere fallible human.

As far as consequences are concerned, you have to start with the truth before you can know the consequences.  Paul's dire warning to the Corinthians had nothing to do with having an individual epiphany about the true but hidden substance of the bread and wine, but rather with some members of the body of believers who were being treated so disrespectfully, though they were themselves members of the body of Christ, which point he makes repeatedly throughout that whole stretch of the book.  That whole context thing.  So it isn't, "recognize Aquinas' alchemy," it's "recognize the body of Christ in that brother you're treating badly, because if you're doing bad things to him, you're doing bad things to Jesus Himself." Yep, now that would have dire consequences.

Peace,

SR

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