Sursum Corda as a Call for Repentance and Faith

Authors

Sebastian Grünbaum, Concordia Seminary, St. LouisFollow

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Lord's Supper, corda sursum, chemnitz, repentance, chrysostom, canon, faith, nicaea, sanctification

Submission Type

Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep

Abstract

This article examines Chemnitz's understanding and interpretation of the Sursum Corda in his work the Lord’s Supper. Chemnitz’s theological adversaries had been claiming that the Sursum Corda was evidence that the early church did not believe that the true body and blood were on the altar. They argued that the believer had to go up to the Lord (who sits on the right side of the Father) in faith and eat mere bread in this faith.3 Chemnitz aimed to correct this understanding by showing that the Fathers did not understand the Sursum Corda in this way but rather as an admonition to faith in Christ who is present when the bread and wine are distributed from the altar.

Disciplines

Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Scripture References in this Resource (separated by semi-colons)

Colossians 3:1-2;

Submission Cost

Free

Submission Audience

Laity; Ministers; Scholars

People in this Resource (separated by commas)

Martin Chemnitz, John Chrysostom

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Grünbaum, Sebastian (2023) "Sursum Corda as a Call for Repentance and Faith," Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal: Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 2.
Available at: https://scholar.csl.edu/grapho/vol5/iss1/2