Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part 1. Functional theologies and desiring the word. Salvation, the Supper, and the drama of the Triune God -- Embodied perception and delight in Christ -- Part 2. A Catholic and Reformed theology of the Supper. Reformed doctrine and the promise of the Supper -- Does God really act through the sacraments? -- Part 3. The Supper and the Gospel in remembrance, communion, and hope. Remembrance in union with Christ -- Communion in union with Christ -- Hope in union with Christ.

Celebrating the Lord's Supper," says award-winning author and theologian J. Todd Billings, "can change lives." In this book Billings shows how a renewed theology and practice of the Lord's Supper can lead Christians to rediscover the full richness and depth of the gospel. With an eye for helping congregations move beyond common reductions of the gospel, he develops a vibrant, biblical, and distinctly Reformed sacramental theology and explores how it might apply within a variety of church contexts, from Baptist to Presbyterian, nondenominational to Anglican. At once strikingly new and deeply traditional, Remembrance, Communion, and Hope will surprise and challenge readers, inspiring them to a new understanding of -- and appreciation for -- the embodied, Christ-disclosing drama of the Lord's Supper.