EUCHARIST:
THEOLOGY& CELEBRATION
Michael
S. Driscoll
CLASS SCHEDULE AND TOPICS
for Fall 2007
SACRAMENTS IN GENERAL
AUGUST 29
Introductions
and S.A.C.R.A.M.E.N.T.S.
SEPTEMBER 3
Christological Underpinnnings
SEPTEMBER 5
Ecclesiailogical Consequences
ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIMENSION
SEPTEMBER 10
Film: Babette's
Feast
SEPTEMBER 12 Excursus on
Method
SEPTEMBER 17 From Human
Meal to
Christian Eucharist: Anthropological dimensions
SEPTEMBER 19 Pre-Christian
Antecedents:
Greco-Roman Mystery Religions
SEPTEMBER 24 Pre-Christian
Antecedents: Jewish Roots
BIBLICAL DIMENSION
SEPTEMBER26
Eucharist in the New
Testament
OCTOBER 1
New Testament Evidence
OCTOBER 3
Biblical Theology
HISTORICAL DIMENSION
OCTOBER 8
Anti-Nicene
Period:
Introduction
OCTOBER 10
Anti-Nicene
Period: Anaphoras
Paper
I
OCTOBER 15
Anti-Nicene
Period: Themes
OCTOBER 17
Post-Nicene
Period
FALL
BREAK - OCTOBER 20-28
OCTOBER 29
Middle Ages:
Eucharistic Devotions
NOVEMBER 5 Middle
Ages:
Eucharistic Theology
NOVEMBER 7 Middle
Ages: St. Thomas
NOVEMBER 12 Reformation
SYSTEMATIC DIMENSION
NOVEMBER
14
Trent to Vatican
II
Paper II
NOVEMBER 19
Vatican II to present
NOVEMBER 21
Ecumenical dimension: Two examples
THANKSGIVING
BREAK - November 22-25
NOVEMBER 26
Ecumenical
dimension: Celebrating
Unity
NOVEMBER 28 Ethical
dimension: Celebrating
Mission
DECEMBER 3
Ethical dimension: Living
the Eucharist
DECEMBER 5
Spiritual dimension:
Celebrating Our Stories
DECEMBER 10
Wrap-up session
DECEMBER 14-19
Final examination -
either oral
or written
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The above schedule and procedures in this course are subject
to
change
only in the event of extenuating circumstances.