Sharing Food and Breaking Boundaries: Reading of Acts 10-11: 18 as a Key to Luke’s Ecumenical Agenda in Acts

In Acts 10-11: 18, Luke use a set of connected stories about Peter, shared eating, and food to explore issues of Christian boundaries and the boundaries between Christians. Luke’s presentation of the apostolic history argues for a genuine ecumenism between Jewish and Gentile Christians characterized...

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Main Author: O'Loughlin, Thomas 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2015]
In: Transformation
Year: 2015, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-37
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
KDJ Ecumenism
NBP Sacramentology; sacraments
RB Church office; congregation
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Summary:In Acts 10-11: 18, Luke use a set of connected stories about Peter, shared eating, and food to explore issues of Christian boundaries and the boundaries between Christians. Luke’s presentation of the apostolic history argues for a genuine ecumenism between Jewish and Gentile Christians characterized and enacted through commensality. Moreover, when this commensality within the Eucharistic pattern of all early Christian community meals, we see that it has a bearing on how Luke viewed the Christian symposium; while it has definite implications for Christian Eucharistic sharing/ecumenism today.
ISSN:1759-8931
Contains:Enthalten in: Transformation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0265378814537757