The sacrament Socinianized: Benjamin Hoadly and the Eucharist
The sacrament Socinianized: Benjamin Hoadly and the Eucharist
This chapter concerns the ways in which the Christian God effected men’s salvation. It reconstructs the Eucharistic debates between Waterland and Benjamin Hoadly. It locates those debates within wider debates during the 1730s about whether or not to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts. It shows how those sacramental debates got refracted through the memory of the seventeenth century which had produced the Test and Corporation Acts. Finally, it demonstrates why Waterland thought that when responding to Hoadly he was merely reiterating Thomas Cranmer’s Reformation-era sacramental theology, which itself had reiterated the pure sacramental theology of the primitive church.
Keywords: Eucharist, Soteriology, Toleration, Thomas Cranmer, Reformation, Test and Corporation Acts
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