Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Justin Chawkan Mary Joseph Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 360 ISBN: 9783838383644
Описание
Challenged by the stark realities of poverty, suffering and exploitation of the Indian estate labourers in Sri Lanka, this book attempts to construct a theology of the Eucharist with particular consideration of the place that memory and hope have as relevant to their dire situation, particularly memory and hope being interconnected specific characteristics of human beings. It goes on to investigate how memory and hope enable the tracing of the roots of human and Christian identities and action. Furthermore, the book takes us to consider the role of the Eucharist as being oriented towards an improvement of the human condition in the future. This would hardly be possible, however, without duly appreciating the relevance of past experience, be it painful or joyful, to the present as well as to moving forward in hope. A sense of historical realities with their reference to the past and an eschatological perspective with regard to the future are not two contrasting categories that are...
