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From: jko@hila.hut.fi (Jukka Korpela)
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Subject: Re: help needed
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Date: 29 Sep 89 05:16:30 GMT
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I'm neither a Christian nor a theologician, but I love to correct
misinformation:
You said that for non-Catholic Christians Christ's presence in the
Communion is "spiritual". It seems to me that, for cultural reasons,
you identify "non-Catholic" with "Calvinist" (in the broad sense).
In particular, both the Orthodox church and the Lutheran churches
explicitly teach that bread and wine in the Communion are Christ's
body and blood. (They differ in the question whether this holds true
"extra usum", i.e. outside their use in the Communion.) Admittedly
many Lutherans are totally unaware of this.