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The Westminster Assembly: Reading Its Theology in Historical Context is unavailable, but you can change that!

Drawing on new primary source material, this volume considers the Assembly’s theology in terms of the unfolding development of doctrine in the Reformed churches—in connection with the preceding and current events in English history—and locates it in relation to the catholic tradition of the western church. The book asks exactly what the divines meant at each stage of their task. At a time when...

clauses piled on top of one another. The entire section is, in fact, only one sentence. First, we note the negatives. The Confession deals less vehemently with the Lutheran doctrine, since it is less injurious than the Roman Catholic. However, it is clearly opposed. True believers do not feed on Christ “carnally and corporally,” for the body and blood of Christ are “not corporally or carnally, in, with, or under the bread and wine.” Consubstantiation is rejected. Christ is not present physically.
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