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The theology of John Zizioulas presents a beautiful vision of the church as Eucharistic communion, in which human persons both are gathered into Jesus Christ and are sent back into the world. In his previous books, Zizioulas focused on the way this communion is related to the communion of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, which calls us to understand being as communion and provides the only...

characteristic of the Johannine farewell discourses [cf. Jn. 13–17]). Much more than a moral or sentimental notion (as is commonly thought), this fundamental difference between the participants at the Passover meal and at the Last Supper reveals clearly the eschatological character of the Last Supper. In the New Testament, such transcending of natural family ties as they exist in the present is rooted deeply in the eschatological character of the Church. Indeed, as soon as the eschatological light
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