The Caroline theologian Herbert Thorndike (1598-1672) was significant before and after the seventeenth-century Restoration of the Church of England. Thorndikes theological methodology engaged with ecclesiology, the government and ministry of the Church of England, the Eucharist and the Book of Common Prayer. This book features Thorndikes significant reflection on eucharistic theology, based on ancient realist models but recast for the present. The book argues that Thorndikes theological methodology was useful in its own time but also has currency for Anglican and ecumenical theology discourse, particularly in relation to ecclesiology, eucharistic theology and liturgical theology and practice.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Referencing of Thorndikes Work in This Book
Abbreviations Used in This Book for Referencing Thorndikes Works
1 Introduction
1.1Starting at the End of Thorndikes Life: His Burial Place
1.2Restoration of the Church of England?
1.3Thorndikes Theological Works
1.4Scholarship on Thorndike
1.5Antiquity and the Present
1.6The Method of This Book
1.7The Plan of This Book
2 Who Was Herbert Thorndike?
2.1Thorndikes Early Life
2.2University of Cambridge
2.3A Time of Deprivation
2.4Restoration of the Church of England
2.5Westminster Abbey
2.6Thorndikes Final Days
2.7Thorndike the Man
3 Thorndikes Terminology of the Eucharist
3.1Eucharist or Thanksgiving
3.2Eucharist as a Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving
3.3Eucharist as Covenant
3.4The Supper of the Lord, the Sacrament of the Supper and the Breaking of
the Bread
3.5Sacramentum
3.6The Mass
3.7Communion
3.8Liturgy
4 Scripture, Reason and Tradition in Thorndikes Works
4.1Richard Hooker and Herbert Thorndike
4.2Richard Hooker, His Laws and Thorndike
4.3Thorndike and Scripture
4.4Thorndike and Reason
4.5Thorndike and Tradition
5 The Elements and the Body and Blood of Christ
5.1The Elements Central to Consecration
5.2The Natural Substances of the Elements Remain after Consecration
5.3Change in the Elements by Consecration
5.4The Worship of Christ in the Signs Is Not Idolatry
5.5Thorndike Rejects Transubstantiation, Memorialism, Calvinism and
Consubstantiation
6 Eucharistic Sacrifice
6.1Introduction
6.2In What Sense Does Thorndike See the Eucharist as a Sacrifice?
6.3The Eucharist as a Sacrifice or Oblation Propitiatory and Impetratory
6.4The Eucharist as the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross
6.5The Eucharist as a Living Sacrifice of the Self
6.6The Breaking, Pouring, Distributing and Eating are in the Nature of a
Sacrifice
6.7Consent of the Catholic Church to the Propitiatory Sacrifice in the
Eucharist
7 The Power of the Church in a Restored Church of England
7.1Bishops and Presbyters/Priests and the Power of the Keys
7.2The Power of the Church to Refuse Communion
7.3The Power of the Church to Determine the Frequency of the Eucharistic
Celebration
8The Eucharist and the Book of Common Prayer in the Restored Church of
England
8.1Thorndike Prefers the Book of Common Prayer of 1549
8.2The Forgiveness of Sins and the Placement of the Absolution in the BCP
8.3The BCP Expresses Thanksgiving for and Blessing of Gods Creation and
Creatures
8.4The Elements are Not for Receiving Alone
8.5The Eucharist in the BCP Is Properly Called the Liturgy
8.6The Eucharist in the BCP Is Intended to be Celebrated Regularly
8.7Liturgical Revision of the BCP Suggested by Thorndike
8.8The Eucharist as the Place for Instruction of the People
8.9Thorndike Opposes the Use of the Decalogue in the Eucharist
8.10Revision of the Prayer of Consecration to Make a More Expanded
Thanksgiving with a Statement of Oblation
8.11Thorndike Prefers a Set Form of Intercession Rather Than Free Prayer
8.12The Memorial of the Dead in the Eucharist
8.13The BCP More Than an Equivocation of Words
9 Early Interpreters of Thorndike and His Theological Methodology
9.1Hamon LEstrange (16051660)
9.2Henry More (16141687)
9.3William Falkner (d. 1682)
9.4George Hickes (16421715)
9.5Daniel Waterland (16831740)
9.6The Nonjurors
9.7Richard Baxter (16151691)
10 Nineteenth Century Interpreters of Thorndike and his Theological
Methodology
10.1Edward Pusey (18001882)
10.2John Keble (17921866)
10.3John Henry Newman (18011890)
10.4William Goode (18011868)
11 Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Interpreters of Thorndike and His
Theological Methodology
11.1Thomas Lacey
11.2George Addleshaw (19061982)
11.3Clifford Dugmore (19091990)
11.4Richard F. Buxton
11.5Henry McAdoo (19161998) and Kenneth Stevenson (19492011)
11.6Bryan Spinks
11.7Paul Avis
11.8Kenneth Fincham and Nicholas Tyacke
11.9David J. Kennedy
11.10Mark Langham (19602021)
11.11Jean-Louis Quantin
11.12Conclusion: Thorndike and Interpreters
12 Evaluating Thorndike and His Theological Methodology
12.1Introduction
12.2Thorndike, Toleration and Exclusive Attitudes
12.3Antiquity, the Fathers and the Caroline Divines in the Anglican
Tradition
12.4Antiquity and the Present: Thorndikes Methodology
12.5Thorndike and Truth as Incarnation and Eucharistic Repetition
12.6Thorndike and Modern Liturgical Revision
12.7Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Brian Douglas, PhD (2006) University of Newcastle, Australia, is an and Anglican priest and Research Professor at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia. He has published several monographs and peer-reviewed articles on Anglican eucharistic theology.
