RLG203H5 Lecture 4: Week 4 - Feb 1
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Week 4: christian worship and initiation (ch 6 and 7) Please note that the christian thanksgiving meal has nothing to do with either the canadian thanksgiving holiday in october or the american version in november! This week we consider the place of the eucharistic meal in christian ritual worship. In particular, we discuss why the eucharist (or thanksgiving ) meal is so fundamental to. Christian practice and why it is so often called a sacrificial meal. Our main readings for this week are in feldmeier (namely, chapters 6 and 7). Cooke and g. macy"s chapter, rituals of prayer, worship, and the eucharist. , from their book christian symbol and ritual: an introduction (oxford: oxford university press, 2005), you can read more about the jewish and greco-roman background for christian communal and ritual meals and about contemporary christian disagreements over both the centrality of the ritual meal and its nature and function.
