Material Eucharist

David Grumett (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2016
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-876707-7 (ISBN)

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This work surveys and identifies the most important liturgical and theological texts from the biblical, Patristic, medieval, Reformation, and modern periods in order to understand how the Eucharist has shaped, and been shaped by, texts, ritual, and doctrine.

Material Eucharist interprets the Eucharist through its material elements of bread and wine. Drawing upon a rich variety of biblical, patristic, medieval, and modern texts and traditions, David Grumett brings together theological reflection and liturgical action and shows their mutual dependence. For both theologians and liturgists, a central concern is the matter out of which the created order has been made, from which issues of community and social justice are inseparable. The ingredients of bread and wine anticipate, in their harvesting and manufacture, the formal church liturgy, which is extended back into the world by the transformative priestly action of laypeople. Indeed, the transforming presence of Christ in the Eucharist as flesh and substance is theologically grounded in his transformative presence in the wider created order, as expressed in eucharistic giving and exchange between churches and their wider communities. Rooting the Eucharist in materiality suggests its primary context to be the death and resurrection of Christ in the power of the Spirit, in which its recipients may share. The many aspects of theology and liturgy with which the book deals have large implications for how the Eucharist is understood in a range of academic disciplines, and for how it is celebrated in churches today.

Dr David Grumett is Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include, Theology on the Menu: Asceticism, Meat and Christian Diet (with Rachel Muers; Routledge, 2010) and De Lubac: A Guide for the Perplexed (T & T Clark, 2007).

Abbreviations
Introduction
1                  Elements:
1.1 Transformations of Nature
1.2 Grain
1.3 Salt
1.4 Olive Oil
1.5 Water
1.6 Leaven
1.7 Baking
1.8 Grape and Vine
1.9 Conclusion
2                  Action:
2.1 Silence and Representation
2.2 On Earth as in Heaven
2.3 Life and Sacrifice
2.4 Communing
2.5 Priesthood, Matter, and Transformation
2.6 Conclusion
3.                  Christ the Bond of Creation:
3.1 The Host as Talisman
3.2 Christ the Preserver
3.3 Christ the Bond of Substance
3.4 The World as Altar
3.5 The Altar, the World, and God s Body
3.6 Conclusion
4.                  Flesh, Substance, and Change:
4.1 Matter and Transformation
4.2 Assimilating Flesh
4.3 The Council of Trent: Tradition and Innovation
4.4 The Eucharist and Aristotle
4.5 Alternatives to Transubstantiation
4.6 Union in the Eucharist and in Christ
4.7 Conclusion
5.                  Death and Resurrection:
5.1 Viaticum
5.2 Eucharistic Burial
5.3 The Dead at the Altar
5.4 Raised by the Spirit
5.5 The Spirit in Recent Eucharistic Prayers
5.6 Conclusion
6.                  Social Bond:
6.1 The Host and the Hearth
6.2 The Fermentum
6.3 Piety and Grace
6.4 Participation and Consumption
6.5 Eulogia
6.6 Bread, Community, and Church
6.7 Conclusion
7.                  The Holy Spirit:
7.1 The Holy Spirit, Baptism, and Eucharist
7.2 Spiritual Ascent
7.3 Ascending and Descending
7.4 Spirit and Matter
7.5 Conclusion
Epilogue
Select Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.09.2016
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	168 x 240 mm
Gewicht	628 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-876707-2 / 0198767072
ISBN-13	978-0-19-876707-7 / 9780198767077
Zustand	Neuware