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Did the early Eucharist ever have a sevenfold shape?
Author(s) -
Bradshaw Paul F.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
the heythrop journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.127
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1468-2265
pISSN - 0018-1196
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2265.00183
Subject(s) - eucharist , supper , liturgy , early christianity , art , philosophy , theology
Ever since the publication of Gregory Dix’s The Shape of the Liturgy in 1945, it has been commonly assumed that the pattern of the Last Supper (bread ritual–meal–cup ritual) constituted the model which was adopted for the shape of the first‐century Christian eucharist, and that this was later modified when the meal eventually disappeared. This article questions that assumption and suggests an alternative hypothesis.