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Scripture as Real Presence: Sacramental Exegesis in the Early Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

This work argues that the heart of patristic exegesis is the attempt to find the sacramental reality (real presence) of Christ in the Old Testament Scriptures. Leading theologian Hans Boersma discusses numerous sermons and commentaries of the church fathers to show how they regarded Christ as the treasure hidden in the field of the Old Testament and explains that the church today can and should...

identity—within the treasure. Why? Because it is in finding the presence of Christ that we most deeply come to know ourselves. Although the theological direction advocated in this book has been percolating in my mind for years, its more immediate origin is a course on patristic exegesis that I started teaching at Regent College in Vancouver in 2010. I have very much enjoyed reading and discussing patristic commentaries and sermons together with my students; none of the material in this book would
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