Best Books on Lord's Supper
The Lord's Supper is the New Covenant sacrament in which believers remember Christ's death and are spiritually nourished as they feed on him by faith. Reformed theology, following Calvin, teaches a real spiritual presence of Christ received through the Holy Spirit, distinct from Roman Catholic transubstantiation, Lutheran views of Christ's bodily presence, and Zwinglian bare memorialism.
Start Here
basic
What Is the Lord's Supper?
Top pickR. C. Sproul · 2013
Short, clear booklet on what the Supper is, does, and means for ordinary believers.
What Is the Lord's Supper? (Basics of the Reformed Faith)
Richard D. Phillips · 2004
Compact booklet covering the sacrament's institution, meaning, and pastoral practice.
The Lord's Supper as the Sign and Meal of the New Covenant
Guy Prentiss Waters · 2019
Traces the Supper's meaning through the Bible's whole covenant storyline.
The Lord's Supper: Eternal Word in Broken Bread
Robert Letham · 2001
Concise, readable case for the historic Reformed view against rival positions.
Go Deeper
intermediate
Given for You: Reclaiming Calvin's Doctrine of the Lord's Supper
Top pickKeith A. Mathison · 2002
Thorough modern defense and explanation of Calvin's own doctrine of the Supper.
The Lord's Supper: Five Views
Gordon T. Smith (editor) · 2008
Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, and Pentecostal views compared side by side.
A Clear and Simple Treatise on the Lord's Supper
Theodore Beza · 2016
Calvin's successor answers Lutheran objections in this readable Reformation-era treatise.
People and Place: A Covenant Ecclesiology
Michael S. Horton · 2008
Places the sacraments within a full covenantal account of the church's identity.
For Study
advanced
The Lord's Supper in the Reformed Tradition: An Essay on the Mystical True Presence
Top pickJohn W. Riggs · 2015
Academic study of how Reformed theologians historically explained Christ's real presence.
Grace and Gratitude: The Eucharistic Theology of John Calvin
B. A. Gerrish · 2002
Landmark scholarly study widely regarded as the standard work on Calvin's Eucharistic theology.
Calvin: Theological Treatises (Library of Christian Classics, Vol. 22)
John Calvin (ed. J. K. S. Reid) · 1954
Includes Calvin's own Short Treatise on the Lord's Supper in scholarly translation.
The Clearest Promises of God: The Development of Calvin's Eucharistic Teaching
Thomas J. Davis · 1995
Detailed academic study tracing how Calvin's Eucharistic doctrine changed over his career.
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