Storied identity: reading the Bible eucharistically
In this paper, I explore two ways of understanding the moral and spiritual significance of stories, and in turn two ways of developing the notion of storied identity, and hence two ways of reading the Bible. I propose that these two approaches to the biblical text provide the basis for a fruitful in...
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European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
2021
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| description | In this paper, I explore two ways of understanding the moral and spiritual significance of
stories, and in turn two ways of developing the notion of storied identity, and hence two ways of
reading the Bible. I propose that these two approaches to the biblical text provide the basis for a
fruitful interpretation of the Christian rite of the Eucharist, so that, to this extent, we can take the
Eucharist to support these ways of drawing out the sense of the text. Accordingly, we can speak of
reading the Bible eucharistically. The aim of the paper is not to substantially explain central features
of the Eucharist as it has been understood in mainstream Christian teaching but, more modestly, to
consider how these two ways of approaching the biblical text may help to bring some aspects of the
rite, as depicted in Christian thought, into rather clearer focus, including its social dimension, and
the relationship, on the Christian understanding, between the divine presence in the Incarnation and
in the Eucharist. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:ff08782a-9ba4-44bb-b2b7-7c72de56d8ce2022-03-27T13:41:25ZStoried identity: reading the Bible eucharisticallyJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:ff08782a-9ba4-44bb-b2b7-7c72de56d8ceEnglishSymplectic ElementsEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion2021Wynn, MRIn this paper, I explore two ways of understanding the moral and spiritual significance of stories, and in turn two ways of developing the notion of storied identity, and hence two ways of reading the Bible. I propose that these two approaches to the biblical text provide the basis for a fruitful interpretation of the Christian rite of the Eucharist, so that, to this extent, we can take the Eucharist to support these ways of drawing out the sense of the text. Accordingly, we can speak of reading the Bible eucharistically. The aim of the paper is not to substantially explain central features of the Eucharist as it has been understood in mainstream Christian teaching but, more modestly, to consider how these two ways of approaching the biblical text may help to bring some aspects of the rite, as depicted in Christian thought, into rather clearer focus, including its social dimension, and the relationship, on the Christian understanding, between the divine presence in the Incarnation and in the Eucharist. |
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| title | Storied identity: reading the Bible eucharistically |
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