Metaphysical Reinterpretation of the Sacrament of the Eucharist as Criticism against St. Thomas Aquinas Based on Question 78, Article 6, Treatise on the Eucharist of his Summa Theologica Cover Image

Metafizyczna Reinterpretacija Sakramentu Eucharystii W Polemice Ze Św. Tomaszem Z Akwinu Na Gruncie Art. 6 Zagadnienia 78 Traktatu О Eucharystii Jego Sumy Teologicznej
Metaphysical Reinterpretation of the Sacrament of the Eucharist as Criticism against St. Thomas Aquinas Based on Question 78, Article 6, Treatise on the Eucharist of his Summa Theologica

Author(s): Krzysztof Suszko
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Pastoral Theology
Published by: Papieski Wydział Teologiczny
Keywords: Eucharist; liturgy; sacrament; matter of sacrament; form of sacrament; substance; accidents; transubstantiation; consecration; epiclesis;

Summary/Abstract: Criticism against St. Thomas Aquinas — intentionally emulating the scholastic method of proving — regards the effect of the forms of consecrating the bread and wine during the Eucharist. This reveals an absurd problem — encountered by Aquinas in his Summa Theologica — rooted in the confusion between different concepts and connotations attached to the term “Eucharist” while trying to accommodate them and ехріаіп in one of those connotations, i.e., “the sacrament of the Eucharist”. Apparently, the solution can be provided by isolating, among other things, a second term: “liturgy of the sacrament of the Eucharist”, and critically revising ali that makes matter and form of “the sacrament of the Eucharist” itself. The conclusions of criticism suggest that it is rational to transfer the search for the moment of transubstantiation from the so-called words of consecration to the epiclesis. Finally, it is time to indicate that on 20 July 2001, the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity recognized the complete validity of the Anaphora of Addai and Mari, without the words of consecration, thus practically con- firming by the Catholic Church that this direction of theological endeavours is right.

  • Issue Year: 23/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 99-112
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish