A Eucharist-shaped Church: Prayer, Theology, Mission is a historical-theological survey of major movements and thinkers that have shaped sacramental theology and liturgical worship within the Anglican/Episcopal tradition. The contributors attend closely to the interplay between Christian thinking, praying, and living in order to distil lessons for liturgical revision and worship renewal. Each chapter explores a major thinker or movement, and explores how the theological, liturgical, ecclesiological, and missiological commitments of the thinker or movement interacted and shaped the thinker's or movement's overall thought. This serves a two-fold purpose: 1.) Much scholarship about Anglican eucharistic theology treats some aspect of that theology in isolation (presence, sacrifice, etc.) from other aspects, and from the context in which the theology was developed. This approach shows how these various aspects and contexts in fact have mutual explanatory power. 2.) The interaction of these various aspects of eucharistic theology provide a framework for those involved in liturgical revision to think through the commitments communicated by the proposed revisions.

About the Author

Daniel J. Handschy (PhD in Historical Theology, St. Louis University) is currently priest-in-charge of St. David's Episcopal Church, DeWitt, NY.

Donna R. Hawk-Reinhard is director of Anglican House of Studies at Eden Theological Seminary and an instructor for the Diocese of Missouri's Episcopal School for Ministry.

Marshall E. Crossnoe is an ordained priest in The Episcopal Church, currently serving as Interim Rector at Episcopal Church of the Advent in Crestwood, Missouri.

Book Information
ISBN 9781978714496
Author Daniel J. Handschy
Format Hardback
Page Count 434
Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 816g
Dimensions(mm) 227mm * 161mm * 39mm