'Fencing the Altar': Jesus, Judas and Eucharistic discipline

Title: 'Fencing the Altar': Jesus, Judas and Eucharistic discipline
Creator: King, Fergus J.
Relation: 'Fencing the Altar': Jesus, Judas and Eucharistic Discipline Vol. 50, Issue 1, p. 30-38
Relation: http://compassreview.org/archive.html
Publisher: Compass
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: The practice of excommunication has, in recent years, been used in a minatory way in both political and ecclesial debates. This paper examines whether this is appropriate by a review of the foundational texts of the practice and comments made by later theologians. A close reading of such texts raises questions about the practice of excommunication which has been based on them, and whether they might not indicate the practice of self-examination and –regulation as much as an institutional discipline. Further, following the work of Francis Moloney SDB, the narratives of the Last Supper suggest that Jesus’ own practice, in sharing this eucharistic prototype with Judas, indicates that self-regulation has a stronger dominical precedent than excommunication, and might imply that this is a more appropriate way of policing eucharistic reception.
Subject: excommunication; Last Supper; Jesus; Judas
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1325110
Identifier: uon:25184
Identifier: ISSN:1036-9686
Language: eng
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