Eucharistic Communion and the World
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567015204
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 16/06/2011
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
This is a collection of writings on the Eucharist by one of the most important theological thinkers of our time. The theology of John Zizioulas presents a beautiful vision of the Church as Eucharistic communion, in which human persons both are gathered into Jesus Christ and are sent back into the world. In his previous books, Zizioulas focused on the way this communion is related to the communion of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, which calls us to understand being as communion and provides the only foundation for otherness and identity. With its sustained attention directly to the Eucharistic communion, this volume provides the context for those discussions. Zizioulas here explores the biblical dimensions and eschatological foundation of the Eucharist, the celebration of the Eucharist by the Church, and the ethos of the Eucharistic community. These essays are provocatively concrete and practical, showing once again that Zizioulas' teaching on persons, communion and otherness has radical implications for the life of the Church and its relationship to the world.
Introduction; Chapter 1: The Biblical Dimensions of the Eucharist; Chapter 2: The Eucharist and the Kingdom of God; Chapter 3: Symbolism and Realism in Orthodox Worship; Chapter 4: The Ecclesiological Presuppositions of the Holy Eucharist; Chapter 5: Some Reflections on Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist; Chapter 6: The Eucharistic Vision of the World and Contemporary Anthropology; Chapter 7: Proprietors or Priests of Creation?; Chapter 8: Preserving God's Creation.
'Metropolitan John Zizioulas is unequivocally the most ecumenically influential Orthodox theologian since the revival of the Orthodox intellectual tradition in nineteenth-century Russia. This collection of Zizioulas's most important (and not easily accessible) essays on the Eucharist is absolutely necessary for a fuller understanding of the eucharistic logic of Zizioulas's "system." Luke Ben Tallon is to be commended for providing a resource that demonstrates how Zizioulas's trinitarian theology, relational ontology and theology of personhood are ultimately grounded in a eucharistic experience and vision of the world; thus, dispelling misinterpretations of Zizioulas as promoting either social trinitarianism, an episcopo-centric ecclesiology, a denigration of nature, or an ethic that lacks practical import. This book amplifies how being as communion is a eucharistic mode of existence in the world.' - Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University, USA.--Sanford Lakoff