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And so we reach chapter 8 where Nemes admits that the thinker he wants to discuss (Michael Henry) is often accused of being a gnostic, dualist, monist, pantheist, and decidedly not catholic. But, Nemes asserts, is that really such a bad thing? And Henry supports his argument, so what the heck!

It is truly only the sunk cost fallacy that is going to get me to the end of this book.

Nemes sets out to prove that a seemingly Real Presence passage by Ignatius can be read with a Memorialist lens. To do this, he argues that something Tertullian wrote a hundred years later can be read that way. He then asserts that this proves Ignatius can be interpreted as a Memorialist. Though the writers were addressing similar audiences, Nemes provides virtually no link between the two passages. Tempted to DNF.

Nemes’ central argument against Real Presence seems to be: “well it’s OBVIOUSLY not that!”
His other arguments are actually quite a bit more interesting, and I really wish he’d develop them more.

I believe this book may actually convince me of exactly the opposite of what it’s setting out to argue.