LORD'S SUPPER.

1. The New-Testament Doctrine.

Question of Christic Origin (§ 1).

Textual Basis for Denials (§ 2).

The Basal Accounts (§ 3).

Christ's Purpose in the Institution (§ 4).

Significance for Humanity (§ 5).

2. The Church Doctrine.
1. In the East.

Difficulties of the Problem (§ 1).

The Didache and Ignatius (§ 2).

Justin Martyr (§ 3).

Early Designations of the Elements (§ 4).

Oriental Influences upon the Conception (§ 5).

Entrance of Sacrificial Conception (§ 6).

Doctrine of Irenæus (§ 7).

The Origenietic Doctrine (§ 8).

The Symbolic-Sacrificial View (§ 9).

Cyril (§ 10).

Gregory of Nyssa and Chrysostom (§ 11).

Doctrine in Fifth and Sixth Centuries (§ 12).

2. Development in the West.

Tertullian and Cyprian (§ 1).

Transition to Transubstantiation (§ 2).

Augustine's Check upon Development (§ 3).

Transubstantiation (§ 4).

Teaching of the Reformers (§ 5).

Doctrine in the Lutheran Church (§ 6).

The Reformed Doctrine (§ 7).

The Anglican Doctrine (§ 8).

3. Confessional Statements.
4. The Liturgy in the Churches of the Reformation.
1. Luther and the Lutheran Church.

Luther's First Form (§ 1).

Luther's Revised Form (§ 2).

Variant Lutheran Forms (§ 3).

2. Zwingli.
3. The Reformed Services.
4. The Anglican Communion.
5. Certain Points of Interest not Already Treated.

Infant Communion (§ 1).

Communion of the Sick (§ 2).

Requirements for Communicants (§ 3).

Practises Connected with Administration (§ 4).

The Lord's Supper is one of the two sacraments generally recognized in the Christian Church, consisting in the blessing or consecration of bread and wine, the repetition of the words of institution (Matt. xzvi. 26-29; Mark aiv. 22-25; Luke xxii. 17-20; I Cor, xi. 23-28), and the eating and drinking of the consecrated elements. In connection with the treatment here given certain other articles should be consulted-for the liturgy of the early Church and the method of celebration, the article Eucharist; for doctrine and liturgy of the Roman Church, Mass and Transubstantiation; for the Greek Church, Eastern Church, III., 5; and the special articles like Epiklesis; Kiss of Peace; Mystagogical Theology; Symbolism, etc.