Tokens of Presence: Second- Personal Presence and Baptistic Accounts of the Eucharist Daniel L. Hill Dallas Theological Seminary, USA Abstract This paper attempts to provide a bridge between the two predominant Baptistic accounts of divine presence in Eucharist, with the help of Eleonore Stump’s account of second-personal presence and theories of emergence. Predominantly understood in either Zwinglian (memorialist) or Reformed (instrumentalist) categories, a dividing wall is erected with baptistic theology over the question of whether or not commu- nion is strictly an act of human remembrance or involves divine presence in some form or fashion. After identifying three key problems with the memorialist account, this paper attempts to provide a middle way between the two views, arguing that the Spirit appropriates the bread and wine as tokens through which he communicates the thoughts, intentions, desires, and second-personal presence of Christ to the gathered body in order to strengthen the church’s union with Christ. Keywords Baptist theology, Lord’s supper, Eucharist, communion, divine presence, emergence Introduction In recent years, Free Church Baptists have vigorously returned to the Lord’s Table in order to help refine their thinking about the presence of Christ in the elements. 1 Primarily, Baptist approaches to the Eucharist tend to fall into Corresponding author: Daniel L. Hill, Department of Theological Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary, 3909 Swiss Ave., Dallas, TX 75204, USA. Email: dhill@dts.edu Article Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology 2022, Vol. 31(1) 49–72 © The Author(s) 2021 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/10638512211050938 journals.sagepub.com/home/pre