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Rediscovering the Lord’s Supper: Communion with Israel, with Christ, and among the Guests is unavailable, but you can change that!

Following his father’s classic work Church Dogmatics, Markus Barth considers the doctrine of the Lord’s Supper. His work is an exegesis of the Lord’s Supper texts in the Synoptic Gospels, John’s Gospel, and the Pauline letters. Barth’s perspective sees the Lord’s Supper and its accompanying agape meal as a symbolic event that allows God’s people to commune in an atmosphere that remains open to...

person; my body can mean simply “my self,” or “I,” (Eph. 5:28; cf. Rom. 12:1) much as my soul in some psalms (e.g., Ps. 103:1) means “myself.” During his last meal, Jesus “gives” bread and the cup to the disciples, and he interprets these actions by speaking of his body’s being given or broken (as various readings of Luke 22:19 and 1 Cor. 11:24 have it) and of his blood being poured out. From the meaning of body (flesh) and blood just described, a grave conclusion has been drawn (most eloquently,
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