What Does It Mean to “Do This”?

What Does It Mean to “Do This”?

by Michael Root and James J. Buckley
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 13/11/2014

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Jesus' best-known mandate--after perhaps the mandate to love God and neighbor--was given at the Last Supper just before his death: "Do this in memory of me." Indeed, a case can be made that to "do this" is the source and summit of the way Christians carry out Jesus' love-mandate. Of course, Christians have debated what it means to "do this," and these debates have all too often led to divisions within and between them--debates over leavened and unleavened bread, reception of the cup, real presence and sacrifice, "open" or "closed" communion, this Supper and the hunger of the world. These divisions seem to fly in the face of Jesus' mandate, causing some to wonder whether this is "really" the Lord's Supper we celebrate (compare 1 Corinthians 11). Everything turns on just what it means to "do this." The purpose of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology's 2012 conference was to address at least some of the many aspects of this question--to address them together, as Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox pastors and theologians, and all participants in the Supper.

ISBN:
9781630876647
9781630876647
Category:
Religion & beliefs
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
13-11-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wipf and Stock Publishers

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