A Eucharist-shaped Church: Prayer, Theology, Mission places a range of Anglican and Episcopal eucharistic theologies in their historical contexts, paying attention to the interplay between worship, theology and mission. It then applies these considerations to possible liturgical revisions.

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.

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