Sacrifice and Community: Jewish Offering and Christian Eucharist

ISBN: 978-1-4051-3690-7

Paperback

220 pages

December 2005, Wiley-Blackwell

Other Available Formats: Hardcover, E-book

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An exploration of the character of the Eucharist as communion in and through sacrifice.
Argues that the Eucharist cannot be separated from sacrifice, and rediscovers the biblical connections between sacrifice and communion.
Timed to coincide with the Year of the Eucharist, proclaimed by Pope John Paul II.
Responds to Pope John Paul II’s encyclical work Ecclesia de Eucharistia.
Critiques the dominant paradigm for Eucharistic theology established in the 1960s by Edward Schillebeeckx and Karl Rahner, who sought to bypass sacrifice.
Reclaims the riches of St Thomas Aquinas’s theology of the Eucharist, which had recently been reduced to a metaphysical defence of transubstantiation.