Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

ackground of its birth, must be considered. While
on a visit to Germany in 1854, Dr. Schaff lectured
before several organizations, on Dr. Nevin and the
Mercersburg Movement. From a report of his
remarks we quote the following:
“The ‘Mystical Presence’ published in 1846,
was his (Dr. Nevin’s) first dogmatic-polemic work,
a Vindication of the Mystical Presence of Christ in
the Lord’s Supper, and of the actual participation
of believers in the power of His divine-human life,
in opposition to the prevalent symbolical view in
America, which sees in this sacrament only a
commemoration of the death of Christ now absent
in heaven. ...
“But the Movement did not stop here. Already
in the Mystical Presence, the idea of the
Incarnation of Christ came to the front very clearly,
as the central truth of Christianity. ...
“In the same track with the more recent
German theology, he (Dr. Nevin) studied with the
deepest interest the entire Puseyite controversy,
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