The Eucharist: Bodies, Bread, & Resurrection [Paperback]

Andrea Bieler (Author), Luise Schottroff (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0800638670 | ISBN-13: 978-0800638672 | Publication Date: November 1, 2007

Bieler and Schottroff bring together the best of contemporary scholarship on ritual theory and practice, Eucharistic origins, the Eucharist and eschatology, the Eucharist and world hunger, the global economy, and the dynamics of torture in a dramatic new vision of the transformative power of the Eucharist for our world. Reflection questions lead readers into the issues raised in each chapter.

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Andrea Bieler is Associate Professor of Christian Worship at Pacific School of Religion and the author of a Die Sehnsucht nach dem verlorenen Himmel ("Yearning for the Lost Heaven," 2003), and coeditor of the series Populäre Religion und Kultur ("Popular Religion and Culture").

Luise Schottroff teaches New Testament and feminist theology at the University of Kassel, Germany, and is the author of numerous books and articles in New Testament and theology, including (with Silvia Schroer and Marie-Theres Wacker) Feminist Interpretation: The Bible in Women's Perspective (1998, 978-0-8006- 2999-1) and The Parables of Jesus: A Feminist Approach (2005, 978- 0-8006-3699-9).

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• Paperback: 258 pages
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers (November 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0800638670
• ISBN-13: 978-0800638672
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Expanding our views of the Eucharist, November 12, 2009

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T. T. Turner II "Everyday Liturgy" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Eucharist: Bodies, Bread, & Resurrection (Paperback)

Intersecting strands of feminist, post-colonial, and post-modern theory together with ritual theory and a practical theology of the Eucharist, Bieler and Schottroff have produced a stunning work that disperses the wonder and power of the Eucharist as crumbs to the hillsides of life.

The extent to which Bieler and Schottroff pull the Eucharist into the quiet places of Christian theology creates a feeling of blowing the dust off an old book and reading from it once more. Theses ideas are not new, Bieler and Schottroff seem to unconsciously reminding us, they were just left by the wayside.

To the extent to which this is a vary scholarly book, a textbook even, precludes me from attempting to way in on the
scholastic side of things; reading this book has deeply practical reasons, if not to just remember what the whole reality of the Eucharist is in the first place.

The Eucharist is, we often forget, is a meal that finds Heaven and Earth intersecting. The bodies of the earth, which need both physical and spiritual bread, are intersecting with the heavenly dream of the coming resurrection. When we decide not to bring our realities, realities of war, hunger, over-abundance, economies, memory, hatred, love, pain, and suffering, to the table, we are diminishing the presence of Christ, a presence which we honor, serve, love, and hope will come again to resurrect this world and bring a coming kingdom.

This book reminds us that in the practice of a 2,000 year old ritual ideas becoming increasingly complex, and indeed cannot be separated from the tension created in a world that is in darkness and the eschatological hope of a kingdom that will come in glory and light.