Eucharistic Table Research Articles

“Taken, Blessed, Broken, Given”: Lukan Table Practices in the Faith Formation of Christian Communities

Luke’s Eucharistic pattern not only serves as a Christological marker, but formative pattern for Christian faith communities. In this article, I appeal to Luke’s Eucharistic pattern to advance the claim that hospitable Eucharistic table practices are not only consistent with Luke’s Christology but also form faith that is capable of confronting and dismantling psychological disgust responses to outsiders. This motif is expanded in Luke–Acts, where acts of table fellowship become the places where socio-moral barriers are transgressed, signaling the good news of the gospel, especially for Gentiles. Drawing from biblical scholarship as well as recent work in psychology, I will advance the claim that hospitable Eucharistic practices not only expose disgust psychology in the faith formation of persons but also act as a potential balm, forming persons according to the good news proclaimed in Luke–Acts.

Resurrecting the Crucified Fat Body

The physical, psychological, and spiritual violence against fat bodies in the US, committed in service of a racist, sexist, classist, and ableist vision of an idealized body size, is death-dealing. This essay develops a theo-ethical vision of fat liberation that rejects the trappings of the “religion of thinness” and celebrates the inherent worth of fat bodies through an incarnational theology that recognizes the image of God in every body size, the presence of body size diversity in creation, and the full inclusion of all body sizes at the eucharistic table.

The Eucharist as Iconic Experience of Divine Love: Ancient – Future Orienteering with Julian of Norwich

This paper explores Julian of Norwich’s experience of divine love through her understanding of “poynte,” culminating in her mystical revelation of the blood of Jesus. In the medieval context of plague, war, and hopelessness, Julian experiences the blood of Jesus on the cross present in the Eucharist as a place of safety and joy, something which can speak to the contemporary reader during this time of pandemic, racial strife, and global pessimism. First, the stage is set by historically examining the socio-cultural milieu of fourteenth-century England, mystical spirituality, and sacramental practice of the Eucharist in the medieval Church. Next, the image of blood as it relates to Julian Norwich’s idea of time expressed as “poynte” in her Showings is presented to illuminate the transformation of suffering into God’s great love which upends all social and religious barriers to unify people in neighborly love. Contemporary implications are made for viewing the Eucharist as icon of remembrance through which Christ is experienced in his suffering at a kingdom table of divine love for a world that suffers and bleeds. Julian of Norwich presents visions of healing, restoration, and theosis where all of humanity’s wounds are healed by Jesus’ bloody wounds. In a Eucharistic preview of the festal banquet of kingdom shalom, Julian’s vision of divine love as a place of safety and joy inform a present Eucharistic table where all are welcome for Jesus is present with his suffering ones and iconically in the faces of his wounded children gathered around the table.

Incorporating Queer, Housing Insecure Perspectives into Eucharistic Theology

This paper uses queer systematic theology and theological anthropology to argue that the Christian Eucharistic tradition is one of radical table fellowship rooted in desire for intimacy with the margins. Including queer people, the issues facing the community, and queer theory at the Eucharistic table therefore requires that we take homelessness seriously and consider alternative approaches to economic justice.

Gereja Sebagai Komunitas Persahabatan

Friendship is not something new in human life. It has existed since man existed in the world with others. Awareness of self and other creations encourages man to build friendship. Many philosophers and theologians have had ideas about the meaning of friendship. With friendship, our life becomes meaningful. The Scriptures also give the meaning of true friendship to human being. Therefore, friendship is a very essential thing in human life. True friendship needs to be based on love, trust, sincerity, sacrifice, kindness, and so on. Friendship itself must be born from the soul. A soul that is ready to give the best for friends. The friendships built by people are often fragile and vulnerable to break up. True friendship will not be eroded by time and distance. It will last forever when a soul is united in it. The Church is a community built by Jesus. The Church is born of friendship. Jesus gathers His friends at one Eucharistic table.

Promoting Food Justice in the Catholic Church: The Eucharist, Transhistoricity, and Sustainability

A call for just production, distribution, and consumption of food has arisen from various sectors in society as a response to the global food crisis. This emergent movement of exploring just food policies and reconfiguring food systems is called the food justice movement which is consistent with the Catholic mission of temporal liberation for the marginalized in the world. Christ invites the Church to build the Kingdom of Godin the world, and to do so, Catholics must encounter the call to feed the hungry. Therefore, authentic Catholic attitudestoward food must mirror this mission. An area of possible dialogue between the Catholic Church and the food justice movement is the Eucharist. Just as all humans eat their fill on various tables around the world, the Church partakes of its spiritual meal on the Eucharistic table. Given these things, some important questions must be raised: In what ways do food attitudes contribute to the persistence of hunger in the world? Are there ways in which the theology of the Eucharist can contribute to the conversation of food justice? How can this conversation lead to a model of authentic Catholic food attitudes not just in the present but also for the future?

Sacramentum Pacis: The Eucharist as the Sacrament of Peace

This paper will examine the nature of the Eucharist as a “sacrament of peace”, a sacrament by which the Christian believer is reconciled to Christ and the Church. While, properly-speaking, the Sacrament of Reconciliation is the ordinary means of this activity, one sees that the Eucharist provides a healing balm for sin, enflames the soul with the fire of charity, and reveals itself as both a symbol of peace already realized and a sign of peace yet to come. This “sacrament of peace” bestows God’s peace to the Church, which, in turn, commissions the Christian to embody this peace through works of mercy and initiatives of justice. Through this, we see the social and missional implications for a community centered around the Eucharistic table. Helpful to this investigation will be the Eucharistic theology of the late Orthodox theologian, Alexander Schmemann and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

The Christian Imaginary ofSons of Anarchy

In this article, I explore how the FX series Sons of Anarchy employs a Christian apocalyptic imaginary. Focusing on the use of rearticulated kinship language, struggles with the place and power of women, and the bloody disposal of enemies as the route to an idealized future, I demonstrate parallels between the world envisioned by the canonical writings of the early Christian church and the fictional world of Charming, California. I also assess how the friction between apocalyptic/anarchic ideals and institutional structures functions similarly in first century Christianity and in SAMCRO (Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Redwood Original). Finally, I look at the ways in which the series appropriates common Christian symbols such as the Eucharistic table, the book, and the cross in an American pop culture format.

Playing Cards at the Eucharistic Table: Music, Theology, and Society in a Corpus Christi Villancico from Colonial Mexico, 1628

As part of the festivities of Corpus Christi in 1628, a cathedral choir in colonial Mexico sang about the Eucharist through the metaphor of a card game. This music is a previously unstudied, fragmentary villancico, composed by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla for the cathedral of Puebla de los Ángeles, and it opens a window into the social history of card-playing and gambling in the Spanish colonies. It stems from a broader tradition of “divinizing” cards, including poetry and drama by Lope de Vega and González de Eslava. The article explores the theological and social implications of using liturgical music to present Christ as a rogue card player, winning humanity back from the devil by laying down the trump card of his own body on the table. Includes an edition of the surviving music. The online version includes a recording played on the organ by the author.

Crossing Tables and Queering Deification

To respond to the dominating force of religio-cultural salvation in the U.S., this article analyzes two disparate tables and the bodies associated with them: the Unsung Founders memorial at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Eucharistic table in the work of seventh century Christian monk Maximus the Confessor. Drawing on Sara Ahmed's methodological exploration of how tables orient bodies, I constructively "cross" the racial, gendered, and economically marginalized bodies represented by the monument and the body of Christ on the Eucharistic table. The product of this crossing queers Maximus's doctrine of deification, or union with God, which opens a site of resistance to contemporary notions of this specific privatized and personally responsible salvation. Further, this combination betrays Maximus's theological assumptions that only normative bodies have access to God.

Theology at the Eucharistic Table – By Jeremy Driscoll O.S.B.

Religious Studies ReviewVolume 35, Issue 1 p. 36-36 Theology at the Eucharistic Table – By Jeremy Driscoll O.S.B. Myles Werntz, Myles Werntz Baylor UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Myles Werntz, Myles Werntz Baylor UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 06 March 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0922.2009.01318_10.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume35, Issue1March 2009Pages 36-36 RelatedInformation

Kościół rzymskokatolicki w poszukiwaniu interkomunii z Kościołami odmiennych tradycji liturgicznych

After the Second Vatican Council the Roman Catholic Church recapitulated all his teaching on the Holy Eucharist, coming back to its biblical and patristic roots. At the same time Church was looking for the best way to common Eucharistic Table with different Christian communities – eastern and western. The intercommunion exists just between Catholics and Orthodox in the very special situations. The intercelebration is not possible yet in the absence of ecclesiological and doctrinal communion. The lack of apostolic succession and the other interpretation of the sacraments causes more difficulties on the way to intercommunion with Protestants. A lot of popular initiatives are taken recently in order to make the common Eucharist closer. Protestant Churches regards the practice of intercommunion as one of the means to the complete union among Christians. The Roman Catholic Church emphasizes that intercommunion is just to be an ultimate aim of the Churches union.

Book Review : Theology at the Eucharistic Table: Master Themes in the Theological Tradition

Book Review : Theology at the Eucharistic Table: Master Themes in the Theological Tradition

Book Review: Theology at the Eucharistic Table: Master Themes in the Theological Tradition

Book Review: <b>Theology at the Eucharistic Table:</b> Master Themes in the Theological Tradition

Theology at the Eucharistic Table: Master Themes in the Theological Tradition

Theology at the Eucharistic Table: Master Themes in the Theological Tradition