What is the Sacrifice of the Mass? Martin Luther's Challenge
Adam Kiełtyk
Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale in Milano (Italia)https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3271-9136
Abstract
During the Reformation period, Eucharistic doctrine and its associated practices were the subject of intense controversy. Martin Luther developed a conception of the Lord’s Supper that distanced himself from the Church, accusing it of imprisoning “our most exalted treasure” in the straits of a papist doctrine. Thus, in his work De captivitate babylonica Ecclesiae, he speaks of the threefold captivity in which the Roman tyranny (the Papacy, the kingdom of Babylon) allegedly confined the sacrament of the Eucharist, and from which it must be freed: a) the denial to the laity of communion under the two species; b) the imposition as dogma of the Thomistic doctrine of transubstantiation; c) the desire to have made the Mass a sacrifice. The present article aims to deal with this third subjugation. An elucidation of Luther's position on the sacrificial character enables an understanding of the subsequent development of sacramental theology, which, since the Council of Trent, has sought a deeper articulation of the link between the Golgotha offering and the altar offering.
Keywords:
sacrifice, Eucharist, Luther, Reformation, sacramentReferences
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