The Eucharist: Mystery of Presence, Sacrifice, and Communion

I had to purchase Feingold's text for a course I am taking on the Eucharist — in short, Feingold's text is accessible and deeply insightful. From the first few pages, the author manages to write in a way that is both engaging and yet intellectually challenging. The author encourages us to think beyond the obvious and to witness the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. It's a superb text that I highly recommend.

This book is the stuff of dreams. It provides a theological and spiritually enriching walk through the Eucharist. Is perfect for Holy Hours and Homilies. The people in the pews need to hear/read this. Its also designed to be a textbook. I recommend this for liturgical theology course, especially in seminaries.

Wonderful overview of the Church’s doctrine on the Eucharist, including the principles of metaphysics for understanding the authentic teaching of the Holy Roman Church.

What an incredible book. Very scholarly and yet a great read. It does great into a great deal of philosophy and theology. One should be aware that this would be a great book for an advanced classroom as in a seminary. With that in mind, I found it an excellent work on the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist!

Excellent book, very complete and very deep.If you want to know about the Eucharist in profound detail, this is your book... I highly recommend it...

The source and summit of being

Found my wife reading the book and it perked my interest. I read the first chapter and ended up going to mass the next day. A Thursday morning mass (might I add) because I wanted to receive the Eucharist so badly. An amazing work.

This books is essential for anyone really wanting to understand the Catholic teaching on the Eucharist--but it's not just a dry textbook. The book is deep and profound and spiritual moving. Great balance of intellectual formation and piety.

(English version below.)Selten schreibe ich Buchrezensionen und noch seltener, wenn ich das Buch noch nicht einmal zu Ende gelesen habe (befinde mich derzeit auf Seite 220). Bei Lawrence Feindgolds 'The Eucharist' mache ich jedoch eine Ausnahme. Es ist wirklich außergewöhnlich: mit seinen feinen Erwägungen, seiner ausgewogenen Argumentation und den unzähligen Quellenangaben und Fußnoten genügt es vermutlich höchsten akademischen Ansprüchen. Gleichzeitig ist das Buch absolut zugänglich auch für Laien und liest sich durchaus spannend (selbst als Nicht-Muttersprachler und mit sehr guten Englisch- und grundlegenden Eucharistiekenntnissen ist Feingold's Buch gut lesbar). Und trotz des akademischen Anspruchs, den das Buch eindeutig geltend macht, ist es vom Glauben getragen und vermag diesen zu vertiefen. In diesem Sinne also ein wahrhaft katholisches Buch, das intellektuelle Auseinandersetzung und Glaubensvertiefung miteinander vereint. Absolut empfehlenswert!/////I rarely do write book reviews and even rarer do I write book reviews while I have not read the whole book yet (I am currently on page 220). But with Lawrence Feingold's 'The Eucharist' I make an exception.It is really an extraordinary book: with its fine considerations, its balanced arguments and its countless sources and footnotes it probably satisfies the highest academic standards. At the same time the book is absolutely accesible and exciting for lay people (even as non native speaker and with a decent knowledge of the english language Feingold's book is readable). And despite the academic tone the book has, it is obviously leavened by the author's and capable of deepening the readers faith and devotion. In this sense it is a truly catholic book that combines satisfaction of the intellect with the deepening of faith. Highly recommended!