Given For You
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Intended as a high point in our lives, the Lord's Supper is too often neglected and too little understood. But when the people of God reawaken to the Supper's significance and power, the church enjoys renewed vigor.
Given for You leads us to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Lord's Supper. Keith A. Mathison revisits church history (especially Calvin and the Reformation), searches relevant biblical passages, and guides us through theological and practical questions about the purpose, frequency, subjects, and elements of the Supper.
Key Features
- Examines the historical context of the Lord's Supper in Reformed Theology
- Sets the reformed context against the witness of Scripture
- Discusses practical issues that arise in the Lord's Supper in the life of the church
Contents
- Part 1: The Historical Context
- John Calvin’s Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper
- Reformed Developments in the 1500s
- Reformed Developments in the 1600s and 1700s
- Reformed Developments in the 1800s and 1900s
- Part 2: The Biblical Witness
- Old Testament Shadows
- The New Testament Reality
- Part 3: Theological and Practical Issues
- A Brief Critique of Other Eucharistic Doctrines
- Toward a Reformed Eucharistic Orthodoxy
- Practical Issues and Debates
Praise for the Print Edition
The best and most comprehensive treatment of the Reformed doctrine of the Lord’s Supper I have ever seen. . . . a genuine ‘must read’ book.
—R. C. Sproul
Argues cogently for the liturgical significance of returning to Calvin’s richly nuanced view of the real presence of Christ in the sacrament.
—David E. Holwerda
I know of no other book that combines solid research, pastoral concern, polemical edge, and attention to oft-forgotten biblical passages with such skill. Any informed decision an the Supper will need to include the careful reading of this volume.
—Michael S. Horton
Product Details
- Title: Given For You: Reclaiming Calvin's Doctrine of the Lord's Supper
- Author: Keith Mathison
- Publisher: P&R
- Publication Date: 2002
- Pages: 392
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Topic: Sacraments
About Keith A. Mathison
Keith A. Mathison (MA, Reformed Theological Seminary; PhD, Whitefield Theological Seminary) is dean of the Ligonier Academy of Biblical and Theological Studies and an associate editor of Tabletalk magazine at Ligonier Ministries. He is the author of Dispensationalism: Rightly Dividing the People of God?; Postmillennialism: An Eschatology of Hope; The Shape of Sola Scriptura; and Given for You: Reclaiming Calvin’s Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper. He is editor of When Shall These Things Be: A Reformed Response to Hyper-Preterism and associate editor of The Reformation Study Bible. He lives in Lake Mary, Florida, with his wife and children.
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Rev. Delwyn X. Campbell Sr
9/30/2017
Interesting - perhaps there is room for agreement with Calvinists after all. Nevertheless, when you try to find a middle ground between truth and error, you end up with error.