The Eucharist and human liberation / Tissa Balasuriya.
Copyright date: New York : Orbis Books, c1977Copyright date: copyright 1977Description: xiii, 171 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0883441187
- 234.163 .B171 1977
- BX2215.2 .B33 1979
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"The eucharist is central to the life of the churches, but not in the forms in which it is so widely celebrated today. Liturgical reform is only skin-deep and does not touch the real problems; the eucharist is in captivity to the institutional church. It has been socially conditioned. What began with sacrific for the liberation of others has long been a means of domesticating believers. The form of the eucharist has been maintained, but its meaning has been evacuated or distorted.
Such is the passionate argument of Fr Balasuriya, a Roman Catholic priest writing from his native Sri Lanka. His vigorous critique ranges over many areas: the origins of the eucharist and its history down the centuries; the significance of the eucharist in modem society, and especially in the third world,
against a background of other cultures and other religions; the nature of the church, the status of women, the character of the priesthood." --Publisher's description
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