̓ΑΡΙΣΤΟΝ ΜEΝ ̔ΥΔΩΡ: Ancient Breakfasts and the Development of Eucharistic Foods
Although there is evidence for eucharistic celebration in the context of an evening cena in the earliest period, this celebration comes to be transferred to the morning, particularly to Sunday morning. This might bring about significant change in the celebration, part of which might lie in the foods...
Subtitles: | ARISTON MEN HYDŌR$dAncient Breakfasts and the Development of Eucharistic Foods |
---|---|
Main Author: | |
Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
Journals Online & Print: | |
Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
Published: |
Oxford University Press
2020
|
In: |
The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 707-717 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Eucharist
/ Breakfasts
/ Classical antiquity
/ Greece (Antiquity)
/ Roman Empire
|
IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBP Sacramentology; sacraments |
Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
Summary: | Although there is evidence for eucharistic celebration in the context of an evening cena in the earliest period, this celebration comes to be transferred to the morning, particularly to Sunday morning. This might bring about significant change in the celebration, part of which might lie in the foods employed, and their quantities. On the basis of an examination of the evidence for daytime eating in Graeco-Roman antiquity, the suggestion is made that eucharistic foods employed in many circles subsequently seen as deviant were standard breakfast foods, and that abstinence from wine reflects this context. Thus the use of water in the eucharist, rather than denoting an ascetic bent in some early Christian circles, simply reflects the transfer of the eucharistic meal from the evening to the morning. |
---|---|
ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
|
Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flaa131 |