Sacrifice and Community: Jewish Offering and Christian Eucharist

by Matthew Levering

This book explores the character of the Eucharist as communion in and through sacrifice. It will stimulate discussion because of its controversial critique of the dominant paradigm for Eucharistic theology, its reclamation of St Thomas Aquinas's theology of the Eucharist, and its response to Pope John Paul II's Ecclesia de Eucharistia . Argues that the Eucharist cannot be separated from sacrifice, and rediscovers the biblical connections between sacrifice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405136901
• ISBN13: 9781405136907
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.0"