With SS. Justin Martyr, Cyprian, Augustine, Leo the Great, Gelasius, John Chrysostom and others, Lutheran theology sees the hypostatic union of the Godhead and the manhood in the incarnation paralleled by the sacramental union of the natural bread and the true natural body of Christ in the appointed administration of the sacrament (FC SD VII 37-38).
Arthur Carl Piepkorn, “Christ Today: His Presence in the Sacraments” in The Church: Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn, Volume One, 175.














