Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
(Excerpt)
For a moment, try saying it this way: Christianity is a meal-fellowship. I know there are other ways to speak of the Christian movement. But, for a bit, I invite you, try this one. At root, Christianity is not just an idea. It is a specific meeting around food and drink. It is first of all not a religious inclination that an individual might have, not a philosophy nor a technique to equip an individual to engage with spiritual realities. In any case, it is certainly not a consumer good that an individual might or might not choose to buy in the marketplace of religious ideas. Rather, quite concretely, quite physically, Christianity is a meeting. Or, more profoundly, Christianity is a very specific kind of meeting: it is a meal-fellowship. As such, it is an invitation for us together to see both God and the world anew from the perspective of that table, of that shared food.
Recommended Citation
Lathrop, Gordon W., "On the Table-Servers: Ministry in the Assembly" (2005). Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers. 118.
https://scholar.valpo.edu/ils_papers/118
Comments
Address for Saying and Doing the Gospel Today: Ministry (2005)
Published in Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers #12, Saying and Doing the Gospel Today, 2004-2006. Rhoda Schuler, editor. Institute of Liturgical Studies: Valparaiso, IN. 2007.