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John Wyclif and the Eucharistic Words of Institution: Context and Aftermath
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In matters of eucharistic theology, John Wyclif (d. 1384) is best known for his rejection of the scholastic doctrine of transubstantiation. There were many reasons why Wyclif came to regard this doctrine as fundamentally untenable, such as the impossibility of substantial annihilation and the illogicality of accidents existing apart from subjects, but chief among them was his deep dissatisfaction with the prevailing interpretation of Christ's words, “Hoc est corpus meum,” the words of institution required to confect the sacrament in the Mass. Wyclif insisted that getting this proposition right was essential for a correct understanding of Christ's presence in the Eucharist. This article presents Wyclif's position on this matter within the context of later medieval scholastic discussions in an effort to lend clarity to his larger understanding of eucharistic presence. The article will then trace the reception of Wyclif's ideas to Bohemia at the turn of the fifteenth century, with special attention given to the Prague master Jakoubek of Stříbro. One finds that Wyclif, and then later Jakoubek, developed new and effective means of conceptualizing the conversion of the eucharistic elements, thereby expanding the ways in which one can affirm Christ's presence in the consecrated host and the salvific effects of that presence for faithful communicants.
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I wish to express my sincere thanks to the anonymous readers of the original draft of this article, whose comments were immensely helpful in crafting the final version. Additional thanks are owed to Gary Macy, for his sage advice, and to Luigi Campi, Laurent Cesalli, Colin King, Stephen Lahey, and Timothy Noone.
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38 Wyclif, De eucharistia, 123 (chap. 5).
39 Thomas Netter, Doctrinale Antiquitatum Fidei Catholicae Ecclesiae, ed. B. Blanciotti, 3 vols. (Venice, 1757–1759; repr., Farnborough: Gregg, 1967), 2:193–194.
40 For the formal list of Wyclif's condemned errors, see Henry Denzinger and Adolf Schönmetzer, eds., Enchiridion Symbolorum, 36th ed. (Rome: Herder, 1976), nos. 1151–1195.
41 Netter, Doctrinale Antiquitatum Fidei Catholicae Ecclesiae, 2:193–194.
42 Netter, Doctrinale Antiquitatum Fidei Catholicae Ecclesiae, 2:194. Cf. Wyclif, De eucharistia, 123 (chap. 5). For more on Netter's eucharistic theology, see I. C. Levy, “Thomas Netter on the Eucharist,” in Thomas Netter of Walden: Carmelite, Diplomat and Theologian, ed. Johan Bergström-Allen and Richard Copsey (Rome: St Albert's Press, 2009), 273–314.
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45 The text is partially edited by Paul J. J. M. Bakker, “Les Septuaginta duae quaestiones de sacramento eucharistae de Guillaume Woodford O.F.M. Présentation del'ouvrage et édition de la question 51,” in Chemins de la Pensée Médiévale: Etudes offertes à Zénon Kaluza, ed. Paul Bakker, Emmanuel Faye, and Christophe Grellard (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002), 440–449, esp. 488–491. Bakker followed as his main text British Library MS Royal 7 B III, and I have consulted alongside his edition MS Bodley 703, fols. 140r–143r.
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48 Rosier-Catach, La Parole Efficace, 417–419.
49 Wyclif, De eucharistia, 293 (chap. 9).
50 While pointedly declining to speak of the conversion of the bread into Christ's body—which, he remarks, “the church calls transubstantiation,” but which he finds “inscrutable”—Wyclif nevertheless did address the principles of substantial change wherein it is prime matter that remains constant; see Wyclif, De materia et forma, 1:189–190 (chap. 4). Note Wyclif's subsequent discussion of the Trinity as a paradigm such that the Father is the matter, the Son the form, and the Holy Spirit the compound of both: De materia et forma, 1:195 (chap. 4). Wyclif proceeds to argue that prime matter does exist in some measure even without form, since it must first be capable of receiving form and therefore be naturally prior to it: De materia et forma 6, 1:207–208.
51 Wyclif, De eucharistia, 89 (chap. 4).
52 Decretales Gregorii IX, L. 3, t. 41, c. 6; Friedberg, Corpus Iuris Canonici, 2:637–638.
53 Richard FitzRalph, Summa in questionibus Armenorum (Paris, 1512), fol. 66v (9.2).
54 Wyclif, De eucharistia, 90–91 (chap. 4).
55 Wyclif, De eucharistia, 92 (chap. 4). Note that in the Middle Ages, Latin was pronounced as the vernacular in one's own region, such that an English priest would pronounce the Latin Mass differently than a German or an Italian. See Henry Ansgar Kelly, “Lawyers’ Latin: Loquenda ut Vulgus,” Journal of Legal Education 38 (1988): 195–207.
56 John Wyclif, De contrarietate duorum dominorum, in Polemical Works in Latin, ed. Rudolf Buddensieg, 2 vols. (London: Wyclif Society, 1883), 2:700–701 (chap. 3). Cf. John Wyclif, De veritate sacrae scripturae, ed. Rudolf Buddensieg, 3 vols. (London: Wyclif Society, 1905–1907), 1:109 (chap. 6).
57 Augustine of Hippo, De trinitate, ed. William J. Mountain, Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina, vol. 50a (Turnhout: Brepols, 1968), 486–489 (15.11.20). See also Andrew Louth, “Augustine on Language,” Literature and Theology 3 (1989): 151–158.
58 Wyclif, De universalibus, 34 (chap. 1). See also Alessandro Conti, “Wyclif's Logic and Metaphysics,” 99–102.
59 John Wyclif, De fide catholica, in Opera Minora, ed. Joahnn Loserth (London: Wyclif Society, 1919), 118 (chap. 6).
60 Wyclfi, De apostasia, 185 (chap. 14).
61 John Wyclif, Sermo 2, in Sermones, ed. Johann Loserth, 4 vols. (London: Wyclif Society, 1887–1890), 4:15.
62 Wyclif, De apostasia, 52 (chap. 3). See John Damascene, De fide orthodoxa, in J. P. Migne, Patrologia cursus completus: Series Graeca, 161 vols. (Paris: Migne, 1857–1866) (hereafter cited as PG), 94:1150 (chap. 4). Martin Luther would use this very sort of imagery to describe the union with distinction of the bread's substance and that of Christ's body in his De captivitate Babylonica ecclesiae, 6:510.
63 Wyclif, De apostasia, 106 (chap. 9).
64 Wyclif, De eucharistia, 271 (chap. 8).
65 John Wyclif, De officio regis, ed. Alfred Pollard and Charles Sayle (London: Wyclif Society, 1887), 92–93 (chap. 5). Cf. Wyclif, De eucharistia, 306 (chap. 9).
66 Wyclif, De apostasia, 115–116 (chap. 9).
67 Wyclif, De apostasia, 118 (chap. 9).
68 Wyclif, De eucharistia, 123 (chap. 5).
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70 Wyclif, Confessio, 117.
71 Wyclif, De apostasia, 196 (chap. 15).
72 Wyclif, De apostasia, 184 (chap. 14).
73 See Anne Hudson, “Wyclif's Works and their Dissemination,” in Studies in the Transmission of Wyclif's Writings (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 1–16; Anne Hudson, “From Oxford to Prague: The Writings of John Wyclif and his English Followers in Bohemia,” Slavonic and East European Review 75 (1997): 642–657; Zdenek David, “Religious Contacts with England during the Bohemian Reformation,” Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice 11 (2018): 157–176; Katherine Walsh, “Wyclif's Legacy in Central Europe in the late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries,” in From Ockham to Wyclif, ed. Anne Hudson and Michael Wilks (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987), 397–417; and František Šmahel, “‘Doctor evangelicus super omnes evangelistas’: Wyclif's Fortune in Hussite Bohemia,” Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 43 (1970): 11–34.
74 Michael Van Dussen, From England to Bohemia: Heresy and Communication in the Later Middle Ages (Cammbridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 63–85.
75 Ota Pavlícek, “Wyclif's Early Reception in Bohemia and His Influence on the Thought of Jerome of Prague,” in Europe after Wyclif, ed. J. Patrick Hornbeck II and Michael van Dussen (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017), 89–114.
76 Marcela Perett, “A Neglected Eucharistic Controversy: The Afterlife of John Wyclif's Eucharistic Thought in Bohemia in the Early Fifteenth Century,” Church History 84 (2015): 64–89, esp. 68–72.
77 Perett, “A Neglected Eucharistic Controversy,” 80–84. See also these recent studies: Barry Graham, “The Evolution of the Utraquist Mass, 1420–1620,” Catholic Historical Review 92 (2006): 553–573; Pavel Kolár, “The Feast of Corpus Christi and Its Changes in Late Utraquism,” Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice 11 (2018): 111–128; Pavel Kolár, “Petr Chelcicky's Defense of Sacramental Communion: Response to Mikulas Biskupec of Tabor,” Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice 6 (2007): 133–142; David Holeton, “The Evolution of a Utraquist Eucharistic Liturgy: A Textual Study,” Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice 2 (1998): 97–126; and David Holeton, “The Bohemian Eucharistic Movement in its European Context,” Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice 1 (1996): 23–47.
78 Andrew of Brod, Epistula ad Zbynkonem, Archepiscopum Pragensem, cum Tractatu contra Errorem Remanentiae, in Studien und Texte zum Leben und Wirken des Prager Magisters Andreas von Brod, ed. Jaroslav Kadlec (Münster: Aschendorff, 1982), 126–128.
79 Andrew of Brod, Epistula ad Zbynkonem, 136–137.
80 Jan Příbram, Tractatus de venerabili eukaristia contra Nicolaum falsum episcopum Taboritatum, in Táborské Traktáty Eucharistické, ed. Jan Sedlák (Brno: Otisk z Hlídky, 1918), 63 (chap. 3).
81 Peter Payne, Petri Payne Anglici Tractatus II: De corpore Christi, in Táborské Traktáty Eucharistické, ed. Jan Sedlák (Brno: Otisk z Hlídky, 1918), 34. Cf. Wyclif, De eucharistia, 116 (chap. 5). Payne had debated Jan Příbram at Prague in 1429 before a panel of eight thelogians, six of whom voted in support of Jan against Payne's eucharistic definitions. See Thomas Fudge, “Václav the Anonymous and Jan Příbram: Textual Laments on the Fate of Religion in Bohemia (1424–1429),” Filosofický Časopis, supplementum 3 (2011): 115–132, at 118.
82 Note that Jan Hus's treatment of the Eucharist in his Sentences commentary is entirely traditional. There he readily employed the term “transubstantiation” and affirmed in a separate eucharistic treatise that the true body and blood are consumed under alien species. Nor did Hus make the case for lay reception under both kinds, noting that the laity do receive both the body and blood under the bread alone in keeping with the doctrine of concomitance. See Jan Hus, Magister Johannis Hus Super IV. Sententiarum, in Opera Omnia, ed. W. Flašhans and M. Komínková, 3 vols. (Prague: 1905; repr., Osnabrück: 1966), 2:553–588 (4.8–13); and Jan Hus, De corpore Christi, in Opera Omnia, ed. W. Flašhans and M. Komínková, 3 vols. (Prague: 1905; repr., Osnabrück: 1966), 1:23–27.
83 Jakoubek of Stříbro, Tractatus de remanencia, in Jacobelus de Stříbro: Premier Théologien de Hussitime, ed. Paul de Vooght (Louvain: Publications Universitaires de Louvain, 1972), 320 (chap. 1).
84 Jakoubek, Tractatus de remanencia, 339–340 (chap. 2).
85 Jakoubek, Tractatus de remanencia, 344 (chap. 3).
86 Jakoubek, Tractatus de remanencia, 344–345 (chap. 3). Jakoubek's argument runs close to Wyclif, Sermo 34, 3:278; including a reference to Jerome's Ad Hedibiam, in PL 22:986 (chap. 2).
87 Jakoubek, Tractatus de remanencia, 344–345 (chap. 3).
88 Jakoubek, Tractatus de remanencia, 345–346 (chap. 3).
89 Jakoubek, Tractatus de remanencia, 346 (chap. 3). The Taborite priest Jan Nemec of Zatec had similarly argued that Christ's use of the pronoun hoc rather than hic, as one would expect to modify panis, is evidence that he had been speaking figuratively. See Jan Nemec of Zatec, Tractatulus de eucharistia, in Táborské Traktáty Eucharistické, ed. Jan Sedlák (Brno: Otisk z Hlídky, 1918), 6.
90 Jakoubek, Tractatus de remanencia, 323–324 (chap. 1). See again John Damascene, De fide orthodoxa, in PG 94:1150–1151.
91 Jakoubek, Tractatus de remanencia, 330 (chap. 2). One finds a similar presentation of remanentist theology with the Prague theologian Stanislaus of Znojmo, who reinterpreted traditional categories and terminology in an effort to construct a new way of speaking of Christ's eucharistic presence—one that could accommodate the bread's transformation into something it had not been before without, however, sacrificing its essential nature in the process. To that end, Stanislaus was willing to employ the term “transubstantiation” in such a way as to allow for the bread's substantial remanence. This enabled him to assert that, by the power of God's almighty word, the bread may remain in its own proper nature even as it is infinitely and efficaciously transubstantiated into the body of Christ. The bread is thereby sanctified such that it may be said to become Christ's body even as it remains bread through its own nature. Stanislaus likewise pursued an Incarnational model as a means to explain the bread's new and dynamic relationship to Christ the Word. See Stanislaus of Znojmo, Tractatus Primus de Eucharistia, in Miscellanea hustica Iohannis Sedlák (Prague: Univerzita Karlova Press, 1996), 289–297.
92 De adorare et colere, in Táborské Traktáty Eucharistické, ed. Jan Sedlák (Brno: Otisk z Hlídky, 1918), 53–54.
93 Jakoubek of Stříbro, Tractatus Ihesus Christus Dominus et Salvator, in Jacobelus de Stříbro: Premier Théologien de Hussitime, ed. Paul de Vooght (Louvain: Publications Universitaires de Louvain, 1972), 400–401 (chap. 12).
94 Jakoubek, Tractatus Ihesus Christus Dominus et Salvator, 401–402 (chap. 13).
95 Holeton, “The Bohemian Eucharistic Movement in its European Context,” 42.