medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear listmembers:
I'm frantically cramming Reformation history to teach a class on the
subject for the first time this summer (!) Much is illuminating,
some things are just downright confusing. This afternoon (for the
30th time or so) I've come across sixteenth-century reformers
denouncing the medieval mass as heretical/blasphemous/sacrilegious or
words to that effect. And I don't understand why. I know that
something about the mass as "sacrifice" (a re-enactment of Christ's
sacrifice on the cross?) is involved in this denunciation. But I
don't really have any sense of how the late medieval mass was
different theologically or ecclesiologically from the Episcopalian
eucharist I go to on Sundays---and none of the standard books on the
Reformation are explaining this in terms that make sense to me. I'd
appreciate any help in understanding this, either on- or offlist.
Phyllis
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