Liturgical Preaching Today
'Do this in remembrance of me' - these words, from the Pauline-Lucan institution narrative I provide the charter for the Christian liturgy. I am aware that traditional Roman Catholic exegesis, given contemporary sanction in directives for the sermon at the Mass of the Lord's Supper on...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1987
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Toronto journal of theology
Year: 1987, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 331-341 |
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| Summary: | 'Do this in remembrance of me' - these words, from the Pauline-Lucan institution narrative I provide the charter for the Christian liturgy. I am aware that traditional Roman Catholic exegesis, given contemporary sanction in directives for the sermon at the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday, interprets this text to be the institution of the ministerial priesthood. I would not contest the legitimacy of that interpretation, at least as giving a sensus plenior for the text. But there can be no doubt that that could hardly have been the original intention of the New Testament authors or of the early communities that first included these words in the Supper tradition. Fr. Raymond Brown has repeatedly observed2 that the sacerdotal understanding of the ministry did not develop until well after New Testament times. The New Testament knows only two priesthoods under the new covenant, the eternal priesthood of Christ, as set forth in the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the priesthood of the Church as a corporate body, what the Reformers called somewhat individualistically the priesthood of all believers. |
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| ISSN: | 1918-6371 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Toronto journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/tjt.3.2.331 |
