Fractio Panis: A History of the Breaking of Bread in the Roman Rite. By Barry M. Craig
At the Second Vatican Council a bishop asked for ‘true ritual, true bread, true wine, gesture significant in itself, words which supply clear significance’. There is a certain irony that the breaking of the bread, which seems to have become a short-hand reference to the eucharist in the first genera...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 384-385 |
| Review of: | Fractio panis (Roma : Pontificio Ateneo S. Anselmo, 2011) (Jeanes, Gordon P.)
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| Summary: | At the Second Vatican Council a bishop asked for ‘true ritual, true bread, true wine, gesture significant in itself, words which supply clear significance’. There is a certain irony that the breaking of the bread, which seems to have become a short-hand reference to the eucharist in the first generations of the Church, was for many centuries effectively invisible within the celebration., Barry Craig takes us through the history of the fraction from the Jewish origins into the increasingly ritualized and expansive ceremonial of the established Church when the fraction and communion were increasingly distanced from the eucharistic prayer by various devotions, often associated with the perceived need for careful preparation for communion. The Lord’s Prayer of course was a very early addition. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt206 |