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The magnificent Oliver O’Donnovan treats the question of the Presence of Christ in the Sacraments as not a matter of substances but of time.
This is where very many medieval and reformational debates got bogged-down: by making it a matter of stuff and not a question of eschatology… Let me summarize a few things…
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To this teaching his hearers begin to argue and question amongst themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” (Jn. 6:52).
Their questions sound a lot like our own questions, perhaps. What does Jesus mean?
Particularly, we want to know what this means in light of Holy Communion, the meal we Christians keep until the Lord’s Return (1 Cor. 11:26). How does what Jesus says in John 6 about partaking in his flesh and blood, which he calls true food and true drink (Jn. 6:55), relate to the Meal which Jesus instituted by saying “Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you” and “this cup is the new testament in my blood” (1 Cor. 11:24-25)?
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