Double Origins of the Eucharist and the Degradation of Clergy in Antiquity
The article suggests revisiting the typology of a symposium-type versus a mass-type of Eucharistic celebrations and hence the assumption that the structure of the mass emerged from sympotic Eucharists. Even if one assumes pre-Constantinian origins for the principle that Eucharists must be preceded b...
| Published in: | Religion in the Roman empire |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Mohr Siebeck
2022
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Religion in the Roman empire
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| Further subjects: | B
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B Symposium B Hierarchies B Communal meals B Rituals |
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| Summary: | The article suggests revisiting the typology of a symposium-type versus a mass-type of Eucharistic celebrations and hence the assumption that the structure of the mass emerged from sympotic Eucharists. Even if one assumes pre-Constantinian origins for the principle that Eucharists must be preceded by a liturgy of the word, the masstype of the Eucharist is only attested as part of the mass. Thus, the question is open when and why symposium-type Eucharists were given up in favour of celebrations of the mass. The paper claims that the mass is conceptually built of at least three components: the liturgy of the word and the Eucharist, where the Eucharist is an amalgamation of its symposium- and salutatio-types. |
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| ISSN: | 2199-4471 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion in the Roman empire
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/rre-2022-0024 |