Monday, July 17, 2017

Responses to Robert Sungenis, Not by Bread Alone (2000/2009)


Robert Sungenis wrote a volume entitled Not by Bread Alone: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for the Eucharistic Sacrifice (1st ed: 2000; 2d ed: 2009 [the author has put the second edition online here for free]) which is perhaps the best attempt, using both the Bible and the Patristic texts, to support the Roman Catholic dogmas relating to the Eucharist, viz. the Mass as a propitiatory sacrifice and transubstantiation. As a result, I have interacted with Sungenis' arguments a number of times on this blog. Here is a listing of blog posts addressing, directly or indirectly, the arguments Sungenis forwards in this text:

"This is my Body": Proof of Transubstantiation?

Malachi 1:11--A Prophecy of the Eucharistic Sacrifice?

"Remembrance" and the Eucharist: Does Αναμνησις mean "memorial sacrifice"? (cf. Instances where μνημόσυνον is used to Denote a "Memorial Sacrifice")

Ivor Davidson on the early Christian understanding of "remembrance" in the Eucharist

Malachi 1:11 and the Fragments from the Writings of Irenaeus

τρωγω in John 6: Proof of Transubstantiation?

1 Corinthians 11:26 and the Theology of the Eucharist

Max Thurian on αναμνησις in the Last Supper Narratives

Was Christ's Blood Shed at the Last Supper?

The Eucharist in the Didache

Eating and drinking Christ's body and blood: Proof of Transubstantiation in John 6?

More on the "interpretive ειμι" and the Last Supper Accounts

Use of "sacrifice" in Didache 14:1-3 and the Eucharist

Did Origen teach Transubstantiation?

Origen vs. the Roman Catholic Interpretation of John 6

Origen's Ignorance of the Eucharist being the Propitiatory Sacrifice offered by New Covenant Priests

Exegetical Notes on John 6:54

1 Corinthians 10:16 and the "communion" with the body and blood of Jesus

The Last Supper was not a Propitiatory Sacrifice

Another note on the use of the present participle in the Last Supper Accounts

Does Hebrews 9:23 support the Mass as a Propitiatory Sacrifice? (cf. Joseph Pohle on the question of whether Christ Offers Sacrifices in Heaven and J. Ramsey Michaels on the use of "sacrifices" in Hebrews 9:23)

Irenaeus of Lyons vs. Transubstantiation

The "body" in 1 Corinthians 11:28-30 and the Eucharist

2 Samuel 23:17, Transubstantiation, and Exegetical Consistency

Moulton-Milligan on τρωγω

The use of ειμι in 1 Corinthians 10:4

Jesus not correcting the audience in John 6: Proof of Transubstantiation?

Keith Mathison on the Language of the Last Supper and the Nature of a "Sacrament"

Answering a technical argument for Concomitance (cf. Ian Christopher Levy on Defenders of Concomitance vs. Patristic Authors and Ancient Traditions and Nathan Mitchell on the Debate as to when Consecration Took Place and the Development of Concomitance)

Is Jesus' Command to Drink His Blood in John 6 to be taken Literally as it is Only Commanded Once?

Evidence that Ignatius Held a Mystical/Symbolic View of the Eucharist

Luke 22:19 and the use of the present participle διδομενον

Joseph Pohle on the Differences Between the Sacrifice of the Mass and the Cross

E.M.B. Green on the Early Christian Application of Sacrificial Language to the Eucharist

Athenagoras' Ignorance of the Concept of the Eucharist Being a Propitiatory Sacrifice

The Understanding of "Remembrance" in Some Early Christian Liturgical Texts