| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5 | The History Cooperative

Nicholas Thompson. Eucharistic Sacrifice and Patristic Tradition in the Theology of Martin Bucer, 1534–1546. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, number 119.) Boston: Brill. 2005. Pp. xv, 315. $147.00.
In the sixteenth century, religious polemicists divided the world between the one "true Church"—their own—and all others, between light and darkness. Then, as now, such a construction left no room for those who sought to build bridges, to find common ground. The polemical construction has proven stunningly durable: to this day, Western Christendom is more often divided between "Protestantism" and "Catholicism," than, say, between "fundamentalism" and "humanism"—a division that cuts across the older division.	1
Among sixteenth-century theologians, perhaps none has suffered more from the polemical construction of Christianity than Martin Bucer. As Nicholas Thompson points out in his introduction, Bucer "was accused, both then and subsequently, of masking genuine differences with vague and misleading formulae; of seeking unity at any cost; of letting personal relationships dull his theological acuity; of subordinating doctrinal concerns to moral or political ones" (p. 6). Thompson's purpose "is simply to describe and analyze the way in which Bucer and his adversaries made use of a common Eucharistic tradition both in the religious colloquies and in their immediate aftermath" (p. 14).	. . .

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