Double Origins of the Eucharist and the Degradation of Clergy in Antiquity

Zusammenfassung: 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

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (21 Seiten)
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Double Origins of the Eucharist and the Degradation of Clergy in Antiquity ; volume:8 ; number:3 ; year:2022 ; pages:393-413 ; Religion in the Roman empire ; 8, Heft 3 (2022), 393-413

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Leonhard, Clemens

Further information

• DOI: 10.1628/rre-2022-0024
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023041403282464085159
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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