RS 200A Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Orthopraxy, Matzo, Protestantism

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS 200A
• Professor: Boyarin Shamma

Document Summary

Refining our understanding of ritual: it"s a form of cognition that constructs models of reality and paradigms of behavior, also remember: orthopraxy vs. orthodoxy, the transformation of jewish ritual is one of the ways christianity expressed the. The last supper: the seder = meal that marks the beginning of passover jesus was crucified on the first day of passover. Ritual elements of jewish passover = christian meaning. Matzah (ritual bread") and wine = body and blood of christ. Collapsing the material and the spiritual: c. re-enacting the past. The language of prayer in the catholic church began to change in 1964. Sacrement of joining the chruch: bapstism, confirmation, communion.