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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...

without losing their particularity. The eschaton enters history by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit ‘reminds’ us of Christ and thereby transforms our eucharistic ‘remembrance’ into eschatological remembrance. At its heart, the Eucharist is the koinonia of the Holy Spirit—a mystery of love, as Paul explains in 1 Corinthians 13. This last observation leads Zizioulas to a eucharistic understanding of spiritual gifts: while they are by no means limited to the eucharistic synaxis, they do
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