Feast Of The World's Redemption

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Author: John Koenig

ISBN-10: 1563382741

ISBN-13: 9781563382741

Category: Lord's Supper -> Biblical teaching

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\ Bible TodayAccessible to a broad, biblically literate audience, this is an exceptionally fine book on the Eucharist... fresh insights...\ \ \ \ \ C. W. McPherson...thoroughly scholarly...thoroughly readable study of the Lord's Supper...insists on its historical reliability and focuses on its mission power. —The Episcopal New Yorker\ \ \ John W. DanielsJohn Koenig's effort is commendable on several fronts. First, as an exercise in creative, perhaps imaginative appropriation of biblical texts in service of the Church's mission to embody the eschatological promises of God, this title certainly deserves attention. Second, to the extent that this text is suggestive in its recognition of references to the 'eucharistic meal' of the early Christians, replete throughout the New Testament, it serves well toward a reclamation of a potentiality—biblically based—that constitutes a vital part of the Church's proclaimed self-identify...an important and engaging...\ \