Breaking Bread: The Emergence of Eucharist and Agape in Early Christian Communities by Stewart, Alistair C.

Breaking Bread: The Emergence of Eucharist and Agape in Early Christian Communities

What's the difference between eucharist and agape? And how did each come to be?The liturgies of early...
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Breaking Bread: The Emergence of Eucharist and Agape in Early Christian Communities by Stewart, Alistair C.

Breaking Bread: The Emergence of Eucharist and Agape in Early Christian Communities

€70,65

Breaking Bread: The Emergence of Eucharist and Agape in Early Christian Communities

€70,65
Author: Alistair C. Stewart
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

What's the difference between eucharist and agape? And how did each come to be?

The liturgies of early Christians are often obscure and variegated in the historical record. 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. Stewart cuts through scholarly confusion about early Christian eating. 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. 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 development into the familiar prayers and distribution of token amounts of bread and wine, which emerged in the third century.

Nuanced and well-researched, Breaking Bread clarifies the development of the blessed sacrament and its lesser-known counterpart. Theologians and historians of early Christianity will find Stewart's work foundational in approaching a topic of enduring scholarly interest but elusive consensus.



Author: Alistair C. Stewart
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 06/27/2023
Pages: 428
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.39w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9780802883025

About the Author

Alistair C. Stewart is senior lecturer in biblical studies at Codrington College, Barbados. He has ministered in parishes in Barbados and England for thirty years and is recognized as a leading scholar in early Christian liturgy.

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