Cult & Controversy: The Worship of the Eucharist Outside Mass

Name: Cult & Controversy: The Worship of the Eucharist Outside Mass
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ISBN: 9780814660508

By: Nathan Mitchell

Pueblo Books / 1990 / Paperback

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Nathan Mitchell has written this book to enrich the Church's understanding of the many theologies and popular customs that have attached themselves to the eucharist over the last two thousand years. Drawing references from original texts and socio-cultural history, he presents the many ways ordinary Christians found of ritualizing what faith told them was true after communion was disengaged from the Holy Meal: Christ is present in the bread and wine of the Supper.

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Title: Cult & Controversy: The Worship of the Eucharist Outside Mass
By: Nathan Mitchell
Format: Paperback
Vendor: Pueblo Books
Publication Date: 1990

Dimensions: 8.50 X 5.50 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 5 ounces
ISBN: 0814660509
ISBN-13: 9780814660508
Stock No: WW4660509

Publisher's Description

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In the first part of this book, Father Mitchell traces the evolution within the Roman Catholic tradition of the cult of the Eucharist outside Mass, a change from holy meal to ritual drama that implied significant alterations of content, meaning, and interpretation.

The second section comments on the mandates of Vatican Council II whose call to a return to proper praxis necessitated changes in then current pastoral practice and theological interpretation.

Author Bio

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Nathan D. Mitchell, PhD, (1943-2024), was Associate Director for Research at the Center for Pastoral Liturgy, University of Notre Dame. Six times a year, he wrote "The Amen Corner" for Worship. In 1998, the North American Academy of Liturgy presented him with its Berakah Award. Other books by Mitchell that have been published by Liturgical Press include Cult and Controversy, Mission and Ministry, and Rule of Prayer, Rule of Faith. He also contributed to The Collegeville Pastoral Dictionary of Biblical Theology.