Sacramentarian

[ sak-ruh-men-tair-ee-uhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person who maintains that the Eucharistic elements have only symbolic significance and are not corporeal manifestations of Christ.
(lowercase) a sacramentalist.

Sacramentarian

/ ˌsækrəmɛnˈtɛərɪən /

any Protestant theologian, such as Zwingli, who maintained that the bread and wine of the Eucharist were the body and blood of Christ only in a figurative sense and denied His real presence in these elements
one who believes in sacramentalism

First recorded in 1530–40; sacrament + -arian

The main difference was in the attitude to the Roman allegiance and to the sacramentarian system.

I am a poor Sacramentarian, and can hardly recollect what I have hitherto lived on, it was so bloody-desperate little.

Sacramentarian, a High Churchman who attaches a special sacred virtue to the sacraments of the Church.

The most that can by any possibility be said for the strictly sacramentarian interpretation of Rom.

An element of truth does indeed underlie the sacramentarian interpretation of Paul.

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