root-source

Updated: May 27, 2025

But there is one office which the Anglican, no less than the Roman Church, would reserve to the priest, and that is the celebration of the Eucharistic Supper. It is abundantly clear to historians that the root-source of the superstitious belief in orders is to be found in the Eucharist and the theories which sprang up in the third century concerning the elements.

W. R. Washington (William Robert Washington) Sullivan - Morality as a Religion: An exposition of some first principles