Eucharist

Review of Neil Xavier O'Donoghue, The Eucharist in pre-Norman Ireland (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011)

by Salvador Ryan

Ancient Liturgical Prayers in its Greek text: Barcelona Manuscript

by Beshoy Ramzy

published in 'Alexandria School' 3.2 (2011) 121-136. (in Arabic)

Kumler, Aden. "The multiplication of the species: Eucharistic morphology in the Middle Ages." RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 59/60 (2011): 179-191.

by Aden Kumler

The Lutheran Eucharist and the Postmodern Ethos

by Lance Green

Wrote this rather quickly, but I'm interested in exploring the topic further.

There is a common idiom amongst Christians that God "meets us where we're at." Postmodern philosophy, though... more There is a common idiom amongst Christians that God "meets us where we're at." Postmodern philosophy, though it cannot be reduced to mere nihilism, has created an ethos of disbelief. But Christianity has a response; the contention of this paper is that the Lutheran doctrine of the Eucharist offers hope to the anomic conditions created by certain postmodern philosophies. Though specifically dealing with phenomenology and subjectivity, my intent is to engage with the atheistic worldviews spawned by these philosophies, not to partake in polemics. God is made real, meeting people where they are at, offering Himself to be experienced through bread and wine, encountering us in our disbelief.

Major Paper - Is the Bread Really Bread

by Dean Marco Funk

Anatomy of a Cargo Cult: Virginity, Relic Envy, and Hallowed Boxes

by Ryan Byrne

Resurrecting the Brother of Jesus, eds. Ryan Byrne and Bernadette McNary-Zak (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) pp. 137-186

‘Feeding and Forming the People of God: The Lord, His Supper and the Church in Calvin and 1 Corinthians 11.17-34'

by Ben Fulford

In Greggs, T., ed., New Perspectives for Evangelical Theology: Engaging with God, Scripture and the World (London: Routledge, 2010).

A critical reading of Calvin's account of the Lord's Supper in his Commentary on 1 Cor 11.17-34 in relation to... more A critical reading of Calvin's account of the Lord's Supper in his Commentary on 1 Cor 11.17-34 in relation to Evangelical Theology with a constructive proposal for taking his thinking forward through a re-reading of the biblical text, in order better to integrate the social dimension of the meaning of the Supper in his account.

The Passion of Christ: What would you say if you were there on that day?

by Daniel Keeran MSW

by Daniel Keeran

This is a meditation for use in observance of the Lords Supper or Eucharist. The purpose of this meditation is to... more This is a meditation for use in observance of the Lords Supper or Eucharist. The purpose of this meditation is to create a personal experience of the divine act and personal reality.

Eating Our Way to Holiness: Anglican Resources for Agricultural Ethics

by Kirsten Guidero

Eucharist in the Didache and the Gospel of John

by Ekaputra Tupamahu

"'Is There a Liturgical Text in this Gospel?': The Institution Narratives and Their Early Interpretive Communities

by Andrew McGowan

Despite considerable differences of opinion about the historicity of the Last Supper of Jesus there is a relatively... more Despite considerable differences of opinion about the historicity of the Last Supper of Jesus there is a relatively common assumption among NT scholars regarding the liturgical character of these traditions. However the earliest eucharistic prayers seem not to have contained this narrative. This article reflects on the earliest reception of the Institution Narratives and suggests their origins may have been as interpretive catecheses, but not as prayer.

Exchanging blood for wine: envisaging heaven in Irish bardic poetry

by Salvador Ryan

"Exchanging blood for wine: envisaging heaven in Irish bardic poetry" in Carolyn Muessig and Ad Putter (eds), Envisaging heaven in the Middle Ages (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), 209-221.

Following the way of peace: Our participation in Christ’s offices of prophet, priest and king.

by Marc Tumeinski

Published in Social Justice Review. 100(11-12), 146-150 (2009).

The Passion of Christ: What would you say if you were there on that day?

by Daniel Keeran MSW

by Daniel Keeran

This is a meditation for use in observance of the Lords Supper or Eucharist. This is a meditation for use in observance of the Lords Supper or Eucharist.

The ‘Body of Christ’ on the Streets of Dayton: A Cultural Account of the Corpus Christi Parish Patronal Procession of 1933

by Emily McGowin

Presented at the University of Dayton Humanities Symposium: Exploring Dayton, 2011.

Fellowship and Food in the Kingdom. Eschatological Meals and Scenes of Utopian Abundance in the New Testament

by Peter-Ben Smit

Peter-Ben Smit undertakes the first encompassing study of New Testament eschatological meals and scenes of nutritional... more Peter-Ben Smit undertakes the first encompassing study of New Testament eschatological meals and scenes of nutritional abundance. His study thus fills a large gap in current research. In terms of its main contributions and emphases, the study challenges the widespread assumption that the origin of the imagery of eschatological meal fellowship and nutritional abundance can be found in Isa 25:6-8 by showing how the images of meal fellowship and nutritional abundance played a significant role in the (utopian) thinking of the Ancient Near East as well as the Mediterranean world. Thus, the book helps to do away with widespread assumptions about these meals with its detailed studies of the individual texts. Furthermore, the typology of eschatological meals and scenes of nutritional abundance presented here will help to differentiate between different kinds of traditions and their various functions and emphases. Through the integration of the various texts in their socio-historical context, the author shows how these texts, particularly the eschatological meals, interact with contemporary "symposiastic ideology." At the same time, the book's synchronic backbone facilitates a demonstration of how the various eschatological meals and scenes of nutritional abundance interact with other meal scenes in the NT books discussed, and this leads to a better understanding of what kind of literary and theological interests the four canonical Gospels and the Apocalypse of John have in their use of these traditions and of banqueting scenes and scenes of nutritional abundance in general.

The Bishop and his/her Eucharistic Community: A Critique of Jean–Luc Marion's Eucharistic Hermeneutic

by Peter-Ben Smit

In the essay the hermeneutical views of Jean–Luc Marion, as they are expressed in his God without Being: Hors–Texte in... more In the essay the hermeneutical views of Jean–Luc Marion, as they are expressed in his God without Being: Hors–Texte in relationship with the Eucharist and the story of Luke 24, are presented and critically assessed. The criticisms registered touch in the first place upon the concept of in persona Christi, which concerns the relation between the celebrant and Christ. Furthermore, the issue of the relationship between the eucharistic minister and his (or her) community and thereby the hermeneutical function of the Eucharist as a celebration of the whole community is discussed in dialogue with Marion's views.

The Doctrine of the Icon-Eucharist for the Byzantine Iconoclasts

by Vladimir Baranov

published in: Studia Patristica 44. Eds. J. Baun, A. Cameron, M. Edwards, M. Vinzent. Leuven: Peeters, 2010. 41–48.

The article re-evaluates the existing sources of the Eucharist theology of Byzantine Iconoclasts. and presents its... more The article re-evaluates the existing sources of the Eucharist theology of Byzantine Iconoclasts. and presents its reconstruction as an integral part of the whole Iconoclastic theology.  The iconoclasts held the material host as the consubstantial image or “true icon” of Christ’s Resurrected body. This doctrine can be connected to the Antiochean teaching of two katastases – material and spiritual. There is no contradiction in the holy gifts being called both the typoi of Christ’s body and consubstantial with it if we take into account the Antiochean notion of typos which is precisely such an image, which has its ontological part in reality. Since the host, both before and after the consecration, is circumscribable, palpable, limited by the dimensions of space, and made of “coarse” matter, it is possible to suggest that the difference between the host and the body of Christ according to the Iconoclasts must have been in those characteristics. Since Christ after his resurrection dwells in the immaterial second katastasis, his Body and Blood in the form of the material Gifts can only be a material image of his immaterial resurrected body, albeit the most precise and consubstantial image. We can assert the influence of the Antiochean Sacramental theology upon Iconoclastic Eucharistic doctrine since we can also find the traces of the doctrine of two katastases in Iconoclastic theology, given that in the Antiochean school the two doctrines are closely connected. If this is the case, then for the Iconoclasts the material gifts of the Eucharist correlate not to the coarse and material body of Christ before his Resurrection, but are an icon of the body of Christ already resurrected, the way that it exists now in the spiritual katastasis. The paper proposes a reconstruction of the Iconoclastic doctrine of the Eucharist consecration as a transfer of “made-by-hands” bread and wine into the realm of things “not made-by-hands,” which opens a possible way to view the prominence of the Iconodulic notion of anthropomorphic images “not made-by-hands” as a polemical counterpart for the Iconoclastic doctrine of the Eucharist as the true “not made-by-hands” image of Christ resurrected.

Ekologiese liturgieë in die Leesrooster 2001-2010: 'n Kritiese evaluering en voorstelle

by Hanno Langenhoven

Dissertation in partial fullfilment of the degree Magister Divinitatus at the University of Pretoria

The study draws two contextual circles in terms of the impending or even current ecological crisis, the Lynn White... more The study draws two contextual circles in terms of the impending or even current ecological crisis, the Lynn White thesis and the response of Christendom.

These contextual circles offer the backdrop against which the researcher develops criteria for the evaluation of ecological liturgies.

In conclusion these criteria are used to evaluate suggested ecological liturgies for use in the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa between 2001 and 2010 on Environment Sundays as well as during Seasons of Creation. The dissertation culminates in suggestions for liturgies to be used during the Season of Creation of 2012 (to be published in 2011).

Saving Edward Taylor's Purse: Masculine Devotion in the Preparatory Meditations

by Nathan Hitchcock

Literature and Theology 22:3 (2008).

Edward Taylor's Preparatory Meditations, hundreds of private poems designed to temper himself for reception of the... more Edward Taylor's Preparatory Meditations, hundreds of private poems designed to temper himself for reception of the Lord's Supper, couch penitence in distinctively sexed language. While all evidence points to Taylor's de facto embodiment as the masculine ideal in Puritan Massachusetts, his introspective poetry often casts him in the feminine persona. Before God Taylor enacts an inner liturgy of submission and insemination wherein, by means of a gynetic dialectic, he obtains authenticity. But Taylor also achieves the same thing through an explicitly masculine performance. This article extends Ivy Schweitzer's work by attending to the andrological imagery of circumcision and emasculation, expressions of abnegation through which Taylor actually reinforces the authority of his manly self.