The Eucharist is the central act of Christian worship. In this book
Martin Stringer brings together some of the scholarship associated
with the sociological analysis of biblical texts into conversation
with liturgists and historians of the first century. He begins his
analysis of the Eucharist and other early Christian meals from a
detailed discussion of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, the
most studied text in the sociological tradition of biblical
scholarship. He proposes that the meal portrayed in chapter 11 of
that letter is more likely to have been an annual event rather than
a weekly one. He considers other texts, both biblical and those
from the first hundred and fifty years or so of Christian history
and shows that the Eucharist, that is a ritual event consisting of
the sharing of bread and wine, which are associated by the
community with the body and blood of Jesus, is most likely to have
been an invention of the Asian or Roman church in around 100-110
CE. Martin D. Stringer is Professor of Liturgical and
Congregational Studies in the Department of Theology and Religion
in Birmingham. His main book so far is A Sociological History of
Christian Worship (CUP 2005).
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