Really what? You write this after I already gave post explaining Augustine's theology on the eucharist. Naturally, I am not guilty of over-simplification. You are.
LOL astounding! Accuse me of exactly that which you are guilty. It's not I who "over simplify" his writings, *you* do when you insist that every time he speaks of "eating and drinking the Body and Blood of Jesus" he's really just speaking of belief.
Go ahead and insist yet again the mere phrase "believe and you have eaten already" applies to every instance the Saint speaks of eating His body, even in writings that are not from these Tractates! And then you can turn around and somehow claim you don't actually believe the Eucharist is a mere symbol, like you did upthread with some serious handwaving, saying in effect "it's a symbol when it's not real, and it's real when it's not a symbol" or some other John Kerry-ish logic. Go ahead. I've got to go to bed.