Monday, December 21, 2020

Resources For Further Study on “Transubstantiation and Church History”


Note: Top recommendations in bold.



Adolf von Harnack, History of Dogma: Volume Four, [New York: Russell and Russell, 1958], Ch. IV, §. 1, pp. 276-303.


August Neander, Lectures on the History of Christian Dogmas: Vol. II, [London: George Bell and sons, 1888], 3. The Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper, pp. 406-413.


Charles Elliott, Delineation of Roman Catholicism: Volume I, [New York: George Lane, 1841], Book II, Ch. IV: Transubstantiation, p. 234ff.


Charles Gore, Dissertations on Subjects Connected with the Incarnation, [London: John Murray, 1896], “Transubstantiation and Nihilianism,” pp. 229ff.


Charles Hebert, The Lord’s Supper: Uninspired Teaching: The First Volume: From Clement of Rome to Photius and the Fathers of Toledo (from A.D. 74 to A.D. 891), [London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1879].


Charles Hebert, The Lord’s Supper: Uninspired Teaching: The Second Volume: From Alfric to Canon Liddon of St. Paul’s London (from A.D. 969 to A.D. 1875), [London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1879].


Darwell Stone, A History of the Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist: In Two Volumes: Vol. I, [London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909].


Edmund Gibson, A Preservative Against Popery, in Several Select Discourses Upon the Principal Heads of Controversy Between Protestants and Papists: Vol. IX, ed. John Cumming, [London: Published at the Society’s Office, 1848], pp. 89-298.


Edmund Grindal, The Remains of Edmund Grindal, ed. William Nicholson, [Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1843], “A Fruitful Dialogue Between Custom and Verity,” pp. 39ff.


Edward Harold Browne, An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles: Historical and Doctrinal, [London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894], Article XXVIII, pp. 676ff.


Edward J. Kilmartin, S.J., The Eucharist in the West: History and Theology, [Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2004]. Preview.


Edward J. Kilmartin, S.J., “The Eucharistic Theology of Pope Gelasius I;” In: Studia Patristica: Vol. XXIX, ed. Elizabeth A. Livingstone, [Louvain: Peeters Publishers, 1997], pp. 283-289. Preview.


Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Doctrine of the Real Presence, [Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1855], pp. 75-314.


Ernest Bartels, Take Eat, Take Drink: The Lord’s Supper Through the Centuries, [St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2004].


Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology: Volume Three, trans. George M. Ginger, ed. James T. Dennison, Jr., [Phillipsburg: P & R Publishing, 1997], Nineteenth Topic: The Sacraments, especially pp. 477-480.


Gary Wills, Why Priests? [New York: Penguin Books, 2013], Ch. 1: Priest Power: The Eucharist, pp. 5ff. Preview.


George Finch, A Sketch of the Romish Controversy, [London: G. Norman, 1831], “Transubstantiation,” pp. 156, 170, 184, 190, 196, 200, 202, 204, 206, 208, 212, 222, 226, 232, 240, 242, 248. (See: Index to Part II, pp. ix-x.)


George Stanley Faber, Christ’s Discourse at Capernaum: Fatal to the Doctrine of Transubstantiation, [London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1840], Ch. V, pp. 108ff.


George Stanley Faber, The Difficulties of Romanism in Respect to Evidence, Or, The Peculiarities of the Latin Church Evinced to be Untenable on the Principles of Legitimate Historical Testimony, [London: Thomas Bosworth, 1853], Bk. II, Ch. IV: Transubstantiation, pp. 235ff.


Gregg Allison, Historical Theology: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine, [Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, 2011], Ch. 29: The Lord’s Supper, pp. 635-658. Preview.


Henri Cardinal de Lubac, S.J., Corpus Mysticum: The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages, trans. Gemma Simmonds, C.J., [Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007]. Preview.


Henry Clay Sheldon, History of Christian Doctrine: Volume I, [New York: Harper & Brothers, 1886], pp. 274-281.


Herbert Thorndike, The Theological Works of Herbert Thorndike: Sometime Prebendary of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster: Vol. IV, [Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1852].


James Taylor, The True Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist, [London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1855].


James Ussher, Archbishop Usher’s Answer to a Jesuit: With Other Tracts on Popery, [Cambridge: Pitt Press, 1835], Ch. 3, pp. 41ff.


Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber, The Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Sacrament; and The Dissuasive From Popery, Volume 10 of The Whole Works of Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings, [London: C. & J. Rivington, 1828], pp. 1ff, pp. 155ff.


Johann Carl Ludwig Gieseler, A Text-Book of Church History: Vol. I, trans. Samuel Davidson, ed. Henry B. Smith, [New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868], Ch. V, §. 101 pp. 432ff.


John Cosin, The History of Popish Transubstantiation, ed. John Sherren Brewer, [London: J. Leslie, 1840].


John Frith, The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith: Vol. III, ed. Thomas Russell, [London: Ebenezer Palmer, 1831], John Frith, “Of the Sacraments,” pp. 324ff.


John Harrison, An Answer to Dr. Pusey’s Challenge Respecting the Doctrine of the Real Presence: In Two Volumes: Vol. I, [London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1871].


John Harrison, An Answer to Dr. Pusey’s Challenge Respecting the Doctrine of the Real Presence: In Two Volumes: Vol. II, [London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1871].


John Henry Hopkins, The Novelties Which Disturb Our Peace: A Third Letter: Addressed to the Bishops, Clergy, and Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church, [Philadelphia: Herman Hooker, 1844].


J. N. D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines: Revised Edition, [San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1978], Ch. XVI: The Later Doctrine of the Sacraments, §. 5: The Eucharistic Presence, pp. 440ff.


John Jewel, The Works of John Jewel, The Second Portion, ed. John Ayre, [Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1847], p. 590ff.


John Tillotson, A Discourse Against Transubstantiation, [London: J. G. & F. Rivington, 1833].


John Harvey Treat, The Catholic Faith; Or, Doctrines of the Church of Rome Contrary to Scripture and the Teaching of the Primitive Church, [Nashotah: The Bishop Welles Brotherhood, 1888], “Transubstantiation,” pp. 152-274.


Joseph Bingham, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, 15.5.4; In: The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham, M.A.: A New Edition in Ten Volumes: Vol. V, ed. R. Bingham, [Oxford: At the University Press, 1855], The Antiquities of the Christian Church, Bk. XV, Ch. V, §. 4, pp. 425ff.


Lucius Waterman, The Primitive Tradition of the Eucharistic Body and Blood, [New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1919].


Nicholas Ridley, “A Brief Declaration of the Lord’s Supper or a Treatise Against the Error of Transubstantiation;” In: The Works of Nicholas Ridley D.D., Sometime Lord Bishop of London, Martyr 1555, ed. Henry Christmas, [Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1841], pp. 1ff.


Pietro Martire Vermigli, The Oxford Treatise and Disputation on the Eucharist, 1549, Peter Martyr Library, Volume 56 of Sixteenth century essays & studies, ed. & trans. Joseph C. McLelland, [Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2000].


Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church: Vol. 3, [Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1884], §. 95: The Sacrament of the Eucharist, pp. 491ff. See also: ccel.org.


Thomas Becon, The Catechism of Thomas Becon, S.t.p. Chaplain to Archbishop Cranmer, Prebendary of Canterbury, &c., ed. John Ayre, [Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1844], “Of The Sacraments.—The Lord’s Supper,” pp. 228ff.


Thomas Cranmer, Writings and Disputations of Thomas Cranmer: Relative to the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, ed. John Edmond Cox, [Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1844].


William Beveridge, Ecclesia Anglicana Ecclesia Catholica: Or the Doctrine of the Church of England: In Two Volumes: Vol. II, [Oxford: At the University Press, 1840], Article XXVIII, pp. 243ff.


William Goode, The Nature of Christ’s Presence in the Eucharist: Vol. I, [London: T. Hatchard, 1856].


William Webster, The Church of Rome at the Bar of History, [Edinburg: The Banner of Truth, 1996], Ch. 8: The Eucharist, pp. 117ff. See also: christiantruth.com.


William Wigan Harvey, The History and Theology of the Three Creeds: Volume I, [London: John W. Parker and Son, 1854], footnote #1, pp. 292-296.



καὶ αὐτός ἐστιν πρὸ πάντων καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκεν ~ Soli Deo Gloria


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