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The 21st Century is not getting any easier and those tricky matters of theologicalunderstanding for critical issues such as the Lord’s Supper always raise questions. Eric W. Gritsch has the answers in these very helpful and readable volumes.

Who Gets to Eat? Issues of Admission to the Lord’s Supper

Edited by Lawrence R. Recla

From a review by Frank C. Senn: In 1978 the American Lutheran Church andthe Lutheran Church in America adopted a Joint Statement on Communion Practices that “precluded” the communion of baptized infants. This statement shut the door on a practice that the Western Church had observed for a thousand years and had not previously categorically precluded, that the Episcopal Church was reconsidering, and that the Eastern Churches still practiced. Eric Gritsch saw the ecumenical, biblical, and theological inappropriateness of this statement and was one of a handful of Lutheran theologians who spoke up for areconsideration of the practice. This publication is now timely when churches are considering the inclusion even of the unbaptized in Holy Communion —a line Dr. Gritsch would not have crossed in his thesis that the Lord’s Supperis the meal of the baptized, but all the baptized.

Paper, 75 pp., $8.00 + postage

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A Handbook for the Christian Life in the 21st Century

This Handbook is an ideal text for an adult study group committed toasking hard questions and desiring to have their lives formed in theimage of Christ.

In the Introduction Professor Eric W. Gritsch writes,“This Handbook has only one pedagogical prerequisite: Curious mindswho wonder about everyday life and search for meaning, indeedhave sensed the phenomenon of survival. Any group of any size fromall walks of life, or from any Christian denomination, is invited to usethis Handbook. It invites Christians and non-Christians to assess theexperience of evil and the need for justice as essential parts ofhuman existence.”

Paper, 72 pp., $8.00 + postage5 or more copies: $7.00 each + postage

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