05 eucharist | Theology and Ethics https://www.theologyethics.com Resources and reflections on theology and ethics Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:53:33 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 “An End to Every War”: The Politics of the Eucharist and the Work of Peace (Cavanaugh, 2016) https://www.theologyethics.com/2018/03/30/an-end-to-every-war-the-politics-of-the-eucharist-and-the-work-of-peace-cavanaugh-2016/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2018/03/30/an-end-to-every-war-the-politics-of-the-eucharist-and-the-work-of-peace-cavanaugh-2016/#respond Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:52:46 +0000 https://www.theologyethics.com/?p=23574 "Christian non-violence imitates Jesus's nonviolence, but it also participates in Jesus's self-emptying into sinful humanity, his sharing in the brokenness of the world. It is this peacemaking that we enact in sharing the broken bread of the Eucharist".

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]]> https://www.theologyethics.com/2018/03/30/an-end-to-every-war-the-politics-of-the-eucharist-and-the-work-of-peace-cavanaugh-2016/feed/ 0 Atonement and Eucharist (Stump, 2015) https://www.theologyethics.com/2018/03/30/atonement-and-eucharist-stump-2015/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2018/03/30/atonement-and-eucharist-stump-2015/#respond Fri, 30 Mar 2018 17:47:23 +0000 https://www.theologyethics.com/?p=23536 [su_youtube url="https://youtu.be/f0IN33K8lBk"][/su_youtube]

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]]> https://www.theologyethics.com/2018/03/30/atonement-and-eucharist-stump-2015/feed/ 0 Real Presence an Ecumenical Perspective 2: Christ in the Eucharist (Boersma, 2017) https://www.theologyethics.com/2017/08/05/christ-in-the-eucharist-boersma-2017/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2017/08/05/christ-in-the-eucharist-boersma-2017/#respond Sat, 05 Aug 2017 15:03:15 +0000 http://www.theologyethics.com/?p=22859 [su_youtube url="https://youtu.be/9dQUwtdJJZY"][/su_youtube]

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]]> https://www.theologyethics.com/2017/08/05/christ-in-the-eucharist-boersma-2017/feed/ 0 Eucharist and Immortality: Thinking One Reformed Way (Nimmo, 2015) https://www.theologyethics.com/2016/05/07/eucharist-and-immortality-thinking-one-reformed-way-nimmo-2015/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2016/05/07/eucharist-and-immortality-thinking-one-reformed-way-nimmo-2015/#respond Sat, 07 May 2016 12:46:42 +0000 http://www.theologyethics.com/?p=7069 [su_vimeo url="https://vimeo.com/126599647"]

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]]> https://www.theologyethics.com/2016/05/07/eucharist-and-immortality-thinking-one-reformed-way-nimmo-2015/feed/ 0 Those with eyes to see (Alison, 2005) https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/14/those-with-eyes-to-see-alison-2005/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/14/those-with-eyes-to-see-alison-2005/#respond Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:53:09 +0000 http://www.theologyethics.com/?p=4706 The best analogy I know for Transubstantiation – the conversion, after consecration, of the substance of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ – is the phenomenon of “Magic Eye” images. These are glossy, colourful, two-dimensional pictures of what appear to be a series of wavy lines or patterns. For the viewer to get the “magic” effect, they should gaze upon the picture for some time, allowing the eyes to relax. At first there is a moment of dizziness as the stereoscopic functions of the brain kick in, trying to make sense of the two-dimensional surface, then, sometimes helped by the viewer moving the picture towards, or away from, the eyes, suddenly a three dimensional image is apparent. It has no necessary relationship at all to the content of the wavy lines or patterns. Indeed the wavy patterns simply yield and become the contours of, for instance, three dolphins leaping out of the water.

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]]> https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/14/those-with-eyes-to-see-alison-2005/feed/ 0 Good Shepherd (Alison, 1999) https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/11/good-shepherd-alison-1999/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/11/good-shepherd-alison-1999/#respond Tue, 11 Mar 2014 18:45:50 +0000 http://www.theologyethics.com/?p=4725 I am going to take the readings which are usual for Good Shepherd Sunday, that is to say Ezekiel 34 and John 10:1-18, and see how we can allow ourselves to enter into what I have tried to outline as the eucharistic dynamic of our faith. First of all I would like to set out what I take to be the structure of Eucharist, and then see how we can allow these readings to come alive for us.

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]]> https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/11/good-shepherd-alison-1999/feed/ 0 Eucharistic Sacrifice and the Social Imagination in Early Modern Europe (Cavanaugh, 2001) https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/05/eucharistic-sacrifice-and-the-social-imagination-in-early-modern-europe-2001/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/05/eucharistic-sacrifice-and-the-social-imagination-in-early-modern-europe-2001/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:26:15 +0000 http://www.theologyethics.com/?p=4434 My explorations will proceed by way of showing the “fittingness” of the rise of the modern social order with certain conceptions or misconceptions of sacrifice in the Reformation era. I will begin with an examination of Martin Luther’s critique of the Mass as sacrifice. Then I will show how Luther’s arguments on sacrifice —as well as those of his opponents—serve as a bridge from the medieval to the modern, specifically in partially reflecting the shift from an organic idealization of society to a contractual conception of social processes. Finally, I will conclude with some brief comments on alternative Christian conceptions of sacrifice which do not succumb to the modern logic of gift and exchange.

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]]> https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/05/eucharistic-sacrifice-and-the-social-imagination-in-early-modern-europe-2001/feed/ 0 The World in a Wafer: A Geography of the Eucharist as Resistance to Globalization (Cavanaugh, 1999) https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/05/the-world-in-a-wafer-a-geography-of-the-eucharist-as-resistance-to-globalization-cavanaugh-1999/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/05/the-world-in-a-wafer-a-geography-of-the-eucharist-as-resistance-to-globalization-cavanaugh-1999/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:05:29 +0000 http://www.theologyethics.com/?p=4437 I was going to subtitle this essay “How to be a Global Village Idiot”, but “A Geography of the Eucharist” better captures what I hope to accomplish, for I believe that much of the Christian confusion over globalization results from a neglect of the Eucharist as the source of a truly Catholic practice of space and time. Globalization marks a certain configuration for the discipline of space and time; I would like to juxtapose this geography with another geography, a geography of the Eucharist and its production of catholicity.

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]]> https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/05/the-world-in-a-wafer-a-geography-of-the-eucharist-as-resistance-to-globalization-cavanaugh-1999/feed/ 0 Consumption, The Market and the Eucharist (Cavanaugh, 2005) https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/05/consumption-the-market-and-the-eucharist-2005/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/05/consumption-the-market-and-the-eucharist-2005/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:05:55 +0000 http://www.theologyethics.com/?p=4447 Economics, we are told, is the science which studies the allocation of resources under conditions of scarcity. The very basis of the market, trade – giving up something to get something else – assumes scarcity. Resources are scarce wherever the desires of all persons for goods or services cannot be met....Consumerism is the death of Christian eschatology. There can be no rupture with the status quo, no inbreaking Kingdom of God, but only endless superficial novelty....The Eucharist tells another story about hunger and consumption. It does not begin with scarcity, but with the one who came that we might have life, and have it abundantly (John 10:10).

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]]> https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/05/consumption-the-market-and-the-eucharist-2005/feed/ 0 Liturgy as Politics: An Interview with William Cavanaugh (Cavanaugh, 2005) https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/05/liturgy-as-politics-an-interview-with-william-cavanaugh-2005/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/03/05/liturgy-as-politics-an-interview-with-william-cavanaugh-2005/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:25:15 +0000 http://www.theologyethics.com/?p=4443 This is often our approach to liturgy and social life: we try to "read" the liturgy for symbols and meanings that we take out and apply in the "real world" -- the offering means we should give of our wealth, the kiss of peace means we should seek peace in international relations, and so on. This is fine, but it doesn’t address the liturgy as an action that forms a body, the body of Christ.

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