Eucharist
Embodied and Embedded in the Land - Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Equinox Publishing Ltd
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-84553-772-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the understanding of Eucharist in contemporary religious traditions, bringing the unique focus of scholars from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Given the multiple interdisciplinary engagements of these scholars in Christian and post-Christian biblical studies and theology, this book offers a significant opportunity to reconsider the meaning of Eucharist today. While the Eucharist is central to Christian life, the role of women remains equivocal and ambiguous in many religious traditions. This play of centrality and marginality provides women scholars with a unique position vis a vis a reimagining and reshaping of traditional understandings of Eucharist, allowing particular authors to interpret Eucharist through such diverse areas of engagement as indigenous culture, medieval and contemporary art, social history, and environmental ethics. No single text currently takes up this question of women and Eucharist from an interdisciplinary perspective as a site for theological and ethical engagement, yet the question of women's relationship to sacraments continues to trouble mainstream religious, and especially Roman Catholic, discourse.
Therefore the aim of this book would be firstly to fill a gap by providing a text that engages with the question of women and Eucharist in a dynamic manner, sympathetic to, but going well beyond the discourse of women's non-ordination; secondly to make an on-going contribution to the discourse of (Christian feminist) theology and ethics; and thirdly, to make an original and constructive contribution to the theology of Eucharist itself.
Therefore the aim of this book would be firstly to fill a gap by providing a text that engages with the question of women and Eucharist in a dynamic manner, sympathetic to, but going well beyond the discourse of women's non-ordination; secondly to make an on-going contribution to the discourse of (Christian feminist) theology and ethics; and thirdly, to make an original and constructive contribution to the theology of Eucharist itself.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Sheffield
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
9 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84553-772-2 (9781845537722)
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Persons
Carol Hogan is a member of the Congregation of the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament, where she lived an enclosed monastic life for fifteen years. Since the advent of Vatican Council II, Carol has worked as a chaplain at the University of Melbourne, while at the same time studying feminist theology. In 2008, she was awarded her doctorate of Ministry Studies by the Melbourne College of Divinity, then completed a program in Johannine Theology and Spirituality with Sandra Schneiders at the Graduate School of Theology, Berkeley. Kim Power was a founding member of the Golding Centre for the Study of Women's History, Theology and Spirituality at Australian Catholic University. She has written widely on women and the church and her publications include Veiled Desire: Augustine on Women (Continuum, 1996). Anne Elvey is an adjunct research fellow in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University, and an honorary research associate with the Melbourne College of Divinity. She is author of An Ecological Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Luke: A Gestational Paradigm (Mellen 2005) and The Matter of the Text: Material Engagements between Luke and the Five Senses (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011). Claire Renkin has a PhD in art history from Rutgers and degrees in English, voice, education and art history from La Trobe University, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Massachusetts. Claire teaches art history and spirituality at Yarra Theological Union, Melbourne College of Divinity.
Content
Preface Elizabeth Pike Introduction Kim Power and Carol Hogan 1. Eucharistic Metamorphosis: Changing Symbol, Changing Lives Carol Hogan 2. The Sunday Eucharist: Embodying Christ in a Prophetic Act Carmel Pilcher (Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Australia) 3. How Australian Aboriginal Christian Womanist Tiddas (Sisters) Theologians Celebrate the Eucharist Lee Miena Skye (Harvard Divinity School) 4. Women, Eucharist, and Good News to all Creation in Mark Elizabeth Dowling (Australian Catholic University) and Veronica Lawson (Ballarat East Sisters of Mercy) 5. ' - Rediscover Features which had been Forgotten': Scripture, Tradition and Whose Feet May Be Washed on Holy Thursday Night Kathleen Rushton 6. Mystery Appropriated: Disembodied Eucharist and Meta-theology Frances Gray (University of New England, Australia) 7. Real Presence: Seeing, Touching, Tasting -- Visualising the Eucharist in Late Medieval Art Claire Renkin 8. Embodying the Eucharist Kim Power 9. Living One for the Other: Eucharistic Hospitality as Ecological Hospitality Anne Elvey