Communion in the Augustana

Hi , I am a Roman Catholic reading the defense of the Augsburg Confession and don't understand why on Article X their is no disagreement about Communion being the Body and Blood , Soul and Divinity of Christ when now they only believe in concomitancy of the real presence through,in,and with the Communion meal/species.Why such an aberrancy of doctrine?

P.S. no offense.


Kyle,

I am not familiar enough with post-Tridentine Roman Catholic dogma and terminology to properly address your concerns. I do not use the terms "soul and divinity of Christ", "concomitancy", nor "species" in my teaching and practice. The reformers confessed what they firmly believed to be the identical doctrine and practice of the early church and orthodox fathers.

It is easy to get confused and bogged down by all sorts of philosophical and scholastic debates about exactly HOW it all works.  Some of both Lutherans and Romans veered off into such silliness from time to time. What is the core teaching we hold in common? Simply put, "This IS my body/blood". Hoc Est Corpus Meum. Is means is. Christ speaks, faith believes.

As long as you take this simple teaching as simple fact, there is no difference between Wittenberg and Rome in this matter. Both the unaltered Augsburg Confession of 1530 and the Roman authors of the Confutatio also agree.

"The tenth article gives no offense in its words, because they confess that in the Eucharist, after the consecration lawfully made, the Body and Blood of Christ are substantially and truly present..." (Confutatio Pontificia)

Pastor Harris

P.S. You may enjoy this link
http://mortuummundo.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-part-of-hoc-est-corpus-meum-dont.html