"Worthy to be here": Protestant Sacramental Devotion and Herbert's "Love" (III)

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"Worthy to be here": Protestant Sacramental Devotion and Herbert's "Love" (III) by Parker Johnson Richard Strier has suggested that explanations of Eucharistie theology do not fully answer important questions about the relation of Herbert's poems to the Sacrament, and he calls for a somewhat different orientation toward this topic: The major question is not Herbert's theological account of the Eucharist but his devotional relation to it. The technical discussion will not answer the key question of whether Eucharistie devotion is or is not at the center of Herbert's poetry. Again, "Love" (III) is a more crucial text.1 I agree that the technical theological discussion does not finally answer the question and that "Love" (III) is a crucial text; I wish to show that Eucharistie devotion is indeed central to Herbert's poems.2 To pursue Strier's question, we must determine what kind of sacramental devotion is an appropriate context for elucidating "Love" (III). The well-established Protestan

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