Monday, April 28, 2003
The Full Meal Deal
John Barach has a good, long quote on "the eucharistic feast" from Philip Lee's Against the Protestant Gnostics (Oxford UP, 1987). Deacon Blues tells about a good, long feast he enjoyed this weekend - but then concludes that "When it comes to celebrations and such, we are wimps." Of course, he's right.
I have been taught as an axiom that the church leads the world. If so, then it follows that our wimpiness in feasting is due to some faultiness in our churches. For a provocative essay on this whole matter, see Steve Atkerson and Eric Svendsen, "The Lord's Supper - or the Lord's Snack?"
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