Breaking Bread: The Emergence of Eucharist and Agape in Early Christian Communities Stewart Alistair C.
Breaking Bread: The Emergence of Eucharist and Agape in Early Christian Communities Stewart Alistair C. What's the difference between eucharist and agape? This is especially true of the eucharist,…
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Breaking Bread: The Emergence of Eucharist and Agape in Early Christian Communities Stewart Alistair C.
What's the difference between eucharist and agape? This is especially true of the eucharist, where the basic practice of communal eating is difficult to disentangle from other contemporary meals, whether Greco-Roman or Jewish practices--or the ill-defined agape meal.In Breaking Bread, Alistair C. And how did each come to be?The liturgies of early Christians are often obscure and variegated in the historical record.
Stewart pinpoints the split in agape and eucharist to the shift in celebrating the eucharist on Sunday morning, leading to the inception of agape as an evening meal. Stewart cuts through scholarly confusion about early Christian eating. The former sought divine union, the latter, communal harmony.
In the final chapter he explores a breadth of Syriac, Greek, and Latin primary sources on a variety of local eucharistic traditions, tracing their