A Eucharist-shaped Church: Prayer, Theology, Mission is a historical-theological survey of major movements and thinkers that have shaped sacramental theology and liturgical worship within the Anglican/Episcopal tradition. The contributors attend closely to the interplay between Christian thinking, praying, and living in order to distil lessons for liturgical revision and worship renewal. Each chapter explores a major thinker or movement, and explores how the theological, liturgical, ecclesiological, and missiological commitments of the thinker or movement interacted and shaped the thinker's or movement's overall thought. This serves a two-fold purpose: 1.) Much scholarship about Anglican eucharistic theology treats some aspect of that theology in isolation (presence, sacrifice, etc.) from other aspects, and from the context in which the theology was developed. This approach shows how these various aspects and contexts in fact have mutual explanatory power. 2.) The interaction of these various aspects of eucharistic theology provide a framework for those involved in liturgical revision to think through the commitments communicated by the proposed revisions.
Daniel J. Handschy (PhD in Historical Theology, St. Louis University) is currently priest-in-charge of St. David's Episcopal Church, DeWitt, NY. Donna R. Hawk-Reinhard is director of Anglican House of Studies at Eden Theological Seminary and an instructor for the Diocese of Missouri's Episcopal School for Ministry. Marshall E. Crossnoe is an ordained priest in The Episcopal Church, currently serving as Interim Rector at Episcopal Church of the Advent in Crestwood, Missouri.
Introduction: Liturgical Revision: Assessing the Stakes Daniel J. Handschy Part I. Historical Investigations: Living in the Tension of Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, and Lex Vivendi 1. Early Foundations of Anglican Ecclesiology and Sacramental Theology Marshall E. Crossnoe 2. "Sacrifices of Laud, Praise, and Thanksgiving": The Eucharist in Classical Anglican Formularies Benjamin M. Guyer Eighteenth Century 3. Thomas Rattray (1684-1743): Divinization as the Foundational Doctrine for Sacramental Theology Donna R. Hawk-Reinhard 4. Benjamin Hoadly (1676-1761): Subverting the Sacramental Test Daniel J. Handschy 5. Samuel Seabury's (1729-1796) Eucharistic Ecclesiology: Ecclesial Implications of a Sacrificial Eucharist Daniel J. Handschy Nineteenth Century 6. John Henry Hobart (1775-1830): Evangelical Truth and Apostolic Order Daniel J. Handschy 7. Robert Isaac Wilberforce (1802-1857): Constituting a Mediatorial Church Daniel J. Handschy 8. F. D. Maurice (1805-72) and His Followers: An Emerging Vision of the Eucharist and Christian Socialism Warren E. Crews Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 9. Charles Gore (1853-1932): The Eucharist and Prophetic Mission Don H. Compier Part II. Examining Prayer Book Revisions Using Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, and Lex Vivendi 10. Liturgical Revision, Past and Future Donna R. Hawk-Reinhard and Daniel J. Handschy 11. Theories of Atonement and Sacrifice in Episcopal Eucharistic Prayers Daniel J. Handschy 12. Contemporary Eucharistic Texts of Our Anglican and Ecumenical Partners Warren E. Crews 13. The Filioque: A Test Case Warren E. Crews Epilogue: A Method of Analysis Daniel J. Handschy Glossary
