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SHORT NOTICES Philip Larkin’s poem ‘Church Going’ sets the scene for this study, speaking as it does of the gulf that exists between contemporary, jaded humankind, for whom nonbelief appears to be the only option. and the archaic. even dead, language spoken by the Church. Yet, say the authors, there is a hunger which the Church used to fill; can it do so again? Unfortunately the solutions offered by the authors are unlikely to satisfy anyone’s spiritual hunger, and this book is a good example of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. A brief review of the common meal traditions of the Graeco-Roman world allows the authors to use the Q sayings about meals to argue that nearly every meal of Jesus was religious, and that the Last Supper is a later aetiological legend, attempting to apply a single origin to what was a multiplicity of eucharistic types. Jesus could not possibly have foreseen his death and have provided an interpretation of it as the Last Supper narratives suggest. This conclusion then justifies the authors’ views that the vast difference in style and belief about the eucharist in the divided churches today simply reflects the situation in the original http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Heythrop Journal Wiley

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The Heythrop Journal , Volume 33 (1) – Jan 1, 1992
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Copyright © 1992 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0018-1196
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1468-2265
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10.1111/j.1468-2265.1992.tb00877.x
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Philip Larkin’s poem ‘Church Going’ sets the scene for this study, speaking as it does of the gulf that exists between contemporary, jaded humankind, for whom nonbelief appears to be the only option. and the archaic. even dead, language spoken by the Church. Yet, say the authors, there is a hunger which the Church used to fill; can it do so again? Unfortunately the solutions offered by the authors are unlikely to satisfy anyone’s spiritual hunger, and this book is a good example of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. A brief review of the common meal traditions of the Graeco-Roman world allows the authors to use the Q sayings about meals to argue that nearly every meal of Jesus was religious, and that the Last Supper is a later aetiological legend, attempting to apply a single origin to what was a multiplicity of eucharistic types. Jesus could not possibly have foreseen his death and have provided an interpretation of it as the Last Supper narratives suggest. This conclusion then justifies the authors’ views that the vast difference in style and belief about the eucharist in the divided churches today simply reflects the situation in the original

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