Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20

O'Loughlin, Thomas

Abstract

If our paradigm of the early churches is one of variety in practice preceding uniform ‘accepted’ forms, then we need to look again at many instances where early evidence for practice was by-passed as aberrant or sectarian. The sequence of eucharistic blessings found in the Didache (God is thanked over a cup preceding a loaf) is one such case. Reassessing the evidence on just this topic can affect not only how we read individual texts (such as the Didache and Lk), but how we imagine these texts in relationship to one another in a period of diversity of practice prior to uniformity being seen as desirable in itself

Citation

O'Loughlin, T. (2021). Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20. In Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019. Volume 22: Liturgica, Tractatus symboli; Orientalia; Critica et Philologica (31-38). Peeters

• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Mar 30, 2020
• Publisher: Peeters
• Pages: 31-38
• Series Title: Studia Patristica
• Series Number: 125
• Book Title: Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019. Volume 22: Liturgica, Tractatus symboli; Orientalia; Critica et Philologica
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