Book contents
- Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism
- Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Call of Unity
- 2 Diversity Is the Tradition
- 3 A Phenomenology of Giving Thanks
- 4 Eucharistia and Revelation
- 5 Ambrose’s Words and the Roman Canon
- 6 Augustine and the Assembly’s Destiny
- 7 Consecrating and Offering the Ordinary
- 8 The Eschatological Exception
- 9 Outdo One Another in Showing Honor
- 10 Into the Heart of God
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Ambrose’s Words and the Roman Canon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2020
- Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism
- Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Call of Unity
- 2 Diversity Is the Tradition
- 3 A Phenomenology of Giving Thanks
- 4 Eucharistia and Revelation
- 5 Ambrose’s Words and the Roman Canon
- 6 Augustine and the Assembly’s Destiny
- 7 Consecrating and Offering the Ordinary
- 8 The Eschatological Exception
- 9 Outdo One Another in Showing Honor
- 10 Into the Heart of God
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In Chapter 4, I described a eucharistic act of thanksgiving tempered by apophatic restraint about God, the self, and the covenant. From the experience of insufficiency and rescue, the human person turns in eucharistia to give thanks, erotically naming as “God” the target of thanks, the mysterious origin of the world which is thus experienced, through thanksgiving, as “creation” rather than as object. My text was the Anaphora of John Chrysostom, a West Syriac model which enjoys general ecumenical approval. It is the Roman Canon, however, that split the eucharistic theologies of the West in the Reformation, and some ecumenical theologians have encouraged Roman Catholics to abandon or severely restrict that text as an unecumenical eucharistic prayer.
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- Eucharist and Receptive EcumenismFrom Thanksgiving to Communion, pp. 97 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020