Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals

by Andrew McGowan

Overview

The early Eucharist has usually been seen as sacramental eating of token bread and wine in careful or even slavish imitation of Jesus and his earliest disciples. In fact, the evidence suggests great diversity in conduct, including the use of foods, in the first few hundred years. This study describes and discusses these practices fully for the first time, and provides important new insights into the liturgical and social history of early Christianity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198269724
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/29/1999
Series:	Oxford Early Christian Studies
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.88(d)
Lexile:	1680L (what's this?)