This e-book explores the epiclesis or invocation of the Holy Spirit within the Eucharistic Prayer, utilizing the Anglican culture as an historic version of a communion of church buildings in awake theological and liturgical discussion with Christian antiquity.
Incorporating significant reports of britain, North the US and the Indian sub-Continent, the writer contains an exposition of Inter-Church ecumenical discussion and the historical divisions among western and japanese Eucharistic traditions and twentieth-century ecumenical endeavour.
This special research of the connection among theology and liturgical textual content, commends a theology and spirituality which celebrates the presence of the Holy Spirit within the Eucharist as current and eschatological present. It hence units historical, modern and ecumenical divisions in a brand new theological context.
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