THE SUPPER
Cranmer and Communion
By Nigel Scotland
The Latimer Trust. 59 pages. £5.99
ISBN 978 1 906 327 200
Nigel Scotland helpfully expounds Thomas Cranmer’s doctrine of the Lord’s Supper. An examination of his published writings against the dramatic background of events of the Reformation leads on to his mature conviction that the Lord’s Supper is a gospel meal using common bread and ordinary wine.
Our Lord ordained it for fellowship, spiritual food, remembrance and thanksgiving. Each of these themes is examined in turn. Dr Scotland then, rather more riskily, tries to anticipate directions in which Cranmer’s teaching would have moved had he survived longer. Then he applies Cranmer for today.
