It was the Master thesis of M. in the field of comparative theology and the history of Western confessions, defended at the Petrograd Ecclesiastic Academy. In this work, the accent is dome not at the Eucharistic disputation of the eleventh century, connected with the conception by Berengarius – they had been already well studied by the twentieth century – but at the disputation on the sacrament of Eucharist of the ninth century.
In the first part of the thesis, the author analyzed theological works which influenced at eth disputation of the ninth century. The second part of the work is on the Eucharistic composition by Paschasius Radbertus ‘On the Body and Blood of the Lord’ (De corpore et sanguine Domini) (830), which had been the first compendium on the matter of Eucharist and later laid the foundation of the Catholic concept of that sacrament. The author notes that he made an accent “at those places of his composition, which could provide the rejections of contemporaries, and gave a reason for the polemics”. But the author also considered those parts of the composition, which were not in the focus of attention of contemporaries of Paschasius. The third part of the work was on the disputation about the treatise ‘On the Body and Blood of the Lord’, as it was. The author analyzed compositions by Ratramnus, Rabanus Maurus, John Scott, and other thinkers of the time.
The work made a serious input into the studies of Eucharistic concepts which had influenced at the development of Christian theology and the history of the Church, in general.
Malitsky N.V. The Eucharistic Disputation in the West in the Ninth Century. Sergiev Posad, 1917.