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The Eucharist : bodies, bread, & resurrection

Andrea Bieler (Author), Luise Schottroff (Author)
Bieler and Schottroff bring together the best of contemporary scholarship on ritual theory and practice, Eucharistic origins, the Eucharist and eschatology, the Eucharist and world hunger, the global economy, and the dynamics of torture in a dramatic new vision of the transformative power of the Eucharist for our world. Reflection questions lead readers into the issues raised in each chapter
Print Book, English, ©2007
Fortress Press, Minneapolis, ©2007
viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780800638672, 0800638670
144226994
Eschatological imagination
The Eucharist as eschatological meal
The bread of life in two economies
The body politics of Eucharist
Eschatological remembrance (anamnesis)
Translated from the German