{"id":9725,"date":"2011-10-11T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=9725"},"modified":"2011-10-11T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T10:00:58","slug":"the-black-rubric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2011\/10\/the-black-rubric\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Rubric"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I\u2019ve been studying Anglicanism lately.\u00a0 But then I\u2019ve run up against the Black Rubric, so-called because it was printed in bold type in the Book of Common Prayer.\u00a0 It enjoins kneeling while receiving the Sacrament, but goes on to deny explicitly any kind of real, bodily presence of Christ in the elements:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhereas it is ordained in this Office for the Administration of the Lord\u2019s Supper, that the Communicants should receive the same kneeling; (which order is well meant, for a signification of our humble and grateful acknowledgment of the benefits of Christ therein given to all worthy Receivers, and for the avoiding of such profanation and disorder in the holy Communion, as might otherwise ensue;) yet, lest the same kneeling should by any persons, either out of ignorance and infirmity, or out of malice and obstinacy, be misconstrued and depraved: It is hereby declared, That thereby no adoration is intended, or ought to be done, either unto the Sacramental Bread or Wine there bodily received, or unto any Corporal Presence of Christ\u2019s natural Flesh and Blood. For the Sacramental Bread and Wine remain still in their very natural substances, and therefore may not be adored; (for that were Idolatry, to be abhorred of all faithful Christians;) and the natural Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ are in Heaven, and not here; it being against the truth of Christ\u2019s natural Body to be at one time in more places than one.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via Black Rubric \u2013 Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a>.\n

Now I know that many Anglicans do believe in the Real Presence, with some sounding almost Lutheran in their affirmations.\u00a0 Indeed, some are Anglo-Catholics with a very high view of the sacraments.\u00a0 I\u2019m curious how those folks handle the Black Rubric.<\/p>\n

According to the article, this has come in and out of various editions of the Book of Common Prayer.\u00a0 (Puritans insisted on it and would go up in arms when it was omitted.)\u00a0 It isn\u2019t in the 2000 edition used in America today, though it remains in the British prayer book.\u00a0 It is apparently in the 1926 Book of Common Prayer, the one favored by many conservatives and Anglo-Catholics today.<\/p>\n

I realize that this is what I read in a Reformed Episcopal service I once attended, with my hosts seemingly a little hurt that I, as a Lutheran, would not commune with them.\u00a0 But the liturgy explicitly repudiated my beliefs about the Sacrament as idolatry!\u00a0 This may also explain to Anglicans who are hurt by the confessional Lutheran practice of closed communion why Lutheran pastors can not assume that Anglicans have the same view of the Christ\u2019s presence in His Supper that they do. And why Lutheran theologians tend to categorize Anglicans as another variety of Calvinists.\u00a0 Indeed, the Black Rubric seems to be a textbook definition of Calvinist sacramental theology (what with the statement that Christ\u2019s body is in Heaven, \u201cand not here\u201d), which is why the Puritans made such a point of it.<\/p>\n

And yet I\u2019m sure this isn\u2019t the whole story.\u00a0 Someone help me out with this.<\/p>\n

HT:\u00a0 Adam<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been studying Anglicanism lately.\u00a0 But then I\u2019ve run up against the Black Rubric, so-called because it was printed in bold type in the Book of Common Prayer.\u00a0 It enjoins kneeling while receiving the Sacrament, but goes on to deny explicitly any kind of real, bodily presence of Christ in the elements: \u201cWhereas it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,47],"tags":[164,328,1031,1350,1943],"class_list":["post-9725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christ","category-church","category-theology","tag-anglicanism","tag-book-of-common-prayer","tag-holy-communion","tag-lutheranism","tag-sacramental-theology"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Black Rubric<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I've been studying Anglicanism lately.\u00a0 But then I've run up against the Black Rubric, so-called because it was printed in bold type in the Book of Common\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2011\/10\/the-black-rubric\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Black Rubric\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I've been studying Anglicanism lately.\u00a0 But then I've run up against the Black Rubric, so-called because it was printed in bold type in the Book of Common\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2011\/10\/the-black-rubric\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cranach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cranachblog\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-10-11T10:00:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gene Veith\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gene Veith\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2011\/10\/the-black-rubric\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2011\/10\/the-black-rubric\/\",\"name\":\"The Black Rubric\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-10-11T10:00:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-10-11T10:00:58+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/f9ca8670bcc51908a78994c0484dbfa1\"},\"description\":\"I've been studying Anglicanism lately.\u00a0 But then I've run up against the Black Rubric, so-called because it was printed in bold type in the Book of Common\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2011\/10\/the-black-rubric\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2011\/10\/the-black-rubric\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2011\/10\/the-black-rubric\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Black Rubric\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/\",\"name\":\"Cranach\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/f9ca8670bcc51908a78994c0484dbfa1\",\"name\":\"Gene Veith\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/054d79faea5d476edd8f99e5f14fb17f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/054d79faea5d476edd8f99e5f14fb17f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Gene Veith\"},\"description\":\"Gene Edward Veith, Jr. is a writer and retired literature professor, serving as Provost Emeritus at Patrick Henry College. 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