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Exploring the Evolution of the Lord's Supper in the New Testament

Exploring the Evolution of the Lord's Supper in the New Testament

Perry, John Michael

Paperback

Series: Exploring Scripture Series

Bible StudiesCatholicismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1556127219
ISBN13: 9781556127212
Publisher: Sheed & Ward
Published: Dec 1 1994
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.35
Language: English

Tradition has assumed that the Lord's Supper was instituted by Jesus on the night of Holy Thursday as a memorial of his impending death on Good Friday. Recent scholarship tells us, however, that this assumption must be carefully qualified. The way in which Jesus taught the church to celebrate his Supper was actually far more complex.

This investigation reveals that the earliest celebrations of the Lord's Supper were memorials of Jesus' Resurrection, not his death. Only later, because of an urgent pastoral problem, did the early church decide to join the memory of Jesus' death to her original celebration of his Resurrection. In the final chapter, Perry answers specific questions raised by the contemporary understanding of the Lord's Supper.

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