Ack! It has just come to my attention that Omnipresent Man is a Protestant Reformation allegory of the eucharist!
From The Age of Reform 1250 - 1550: An Intellectual and Religious of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe (page 336) by Steven Ozment:
"Luther...argued that Christ's body possessed the qualify of ubiquity, or omnipresence, by virtue of which it was able to be in more than one place at the same time. Luther arrived at this conclusion by way of his peculiar belief in the communicatio idiomatum, the hallmark of Lutheran Christology, which Calvinists still attack today....According to this doctrine, the properties of Christ's divine nature, among them ubiquity, were also characteristic of his human nature; Christ's divine nature could bear his human qualities and his human nature his divine qualities. Hence, Luther argued, wherever Christ was spiritually present, he could also be corporally present; the partaker of the Eucharist received the one, whole, crucified and rise Christ."
April 21, 2010
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Ack! It has just come to my attention that Omnipresent Man is a Protestant Reformation allegory of the eucharist!
From The Age of Reform 1250 - 1550: An Intellectual and Religious of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe (page 336) by Steven Ozment:
"Luther...argued that Christ's body possessed the qualify of ubiquity, or omnipresence, by virtue of which it was able to be in more than one place at the same time. Luther arrived at this conclusion by way of his peculiar belief in the communicatio idiomatum, the hallmark of Lutheran Christology, which Calvinists still attack today....According to this doctrine, the properties of Christ's divine nature, among them ubiquity, were also characteristic of his human nature; Christ's divine nature could bear his human qualities and his human nature his divine qualities. Hence, Luther argued, wherever Christ was spiritually present, he could also be corporally present; the partaker of the Eucharist received the one, whole, crucified and rise Christ."
It's official: you're scaring me, Scott.
;-)