Essay 7 — A Shift in Emphasis
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version The Covenant Memorial emphasis is not the invention of new doctrine, but the re-centring of old doctrine around neglected biblical grammars. The ideas might feel “fresh” because they’ve been...
Essay 6 — Communion as Covenant Memorial: A Pastoral Teaching Outline
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version Below is a pastoral teaching outline designed for church use rather than the academy. It is structured so it can be delivered as one extended Communion teaching or a short series (3–4...
Essay 5 – Contrasting Anabaptist memorial theology with modern evangelical practice
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version I. What “memorial” means in responsible Anabaptist theology In its stronger Anabaptist forms (e.g., Marpeck; also later Mennonite theological reflection), “memorial” is not thin recollection...
Essay 4 – The Anabaptist Witness: Memorial, Covenant Fidelity, and Eucharistic Participation
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version What follows is a monograph-style chapter that treats the Anabaptist tradition not as a footnote, but as a coherent theological witness. It is written to correct the caricature of Anabaptism...
Essay No 3 – Eucharist and Memorial in Reformation Theology; Luther, Calvin, and Responsible Anabaptist Witness
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version This study includes the contribution of the more responsible Anabaptist voices. It is the view of the author that the caricatured, “mere memorialism”, often attributed to the Radical...Essay 2 — Biblical Theology of Memorial
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version Memorial, Presence, and Covenant: A Biblical and Patristic Theology of the Eucharist Abstract This essay argues that the Christian Eucharist is best understood as a covenantal memorial...
Essay No 1 Covenantal Real Presence: A Constructive Proposal
Covenant Memorial A Fresh Perspective on Real Prescence Download PDF Version A proposal that is biblical in grammar (Passover–memorial), patristically compatible (presence as participation), Reformationally intelligible (promise-centred), and Anabaptist-sensitive...
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Grace and Forgiveness Meditations on Psalm 51 This psalm doesn’t offer self-repair.It offers mercy without denial — and truth without despair. There are few biblical texts as familiar — and as easily misunderstood — as Psalm 51.Prayed for centuries in private...
The Lord’s Supper – A Mere Memorial?
More than a symbol Many evangelical churches today see the Lord’s Supper as just a symbolic act. The bread and wine help us remember what Jesus did on the cross, following his words: “Do this in remembrance of me.” This view, known as Memorialism, became...