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Article: THE EUCHARIST AS PUZZLE.
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- May 7, 1999
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The Eucharist in the West
History and Theology
Edward J. Kilmartin, S.J.
Pueblo Book, The Liturgical Press,
$49.95, 422 pp.
My favorite illustration of the different ways and different rates of the development of various Christian doctrines has always been the contrast between the Western doctrine of baptism and the Western doctrine of the Eucharist, which, at a first superficial glance, one would expect to have developed together as part of the general doctrine of the sacraments. Enumerating the gifts conferred by baptism, the "father of Latin theology," the North African Tertullian (c. 160-c. 225), attributed to it four ...