Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: An excerpt from the fifth book of the Iliad, in which Homer explains why gods are immortal, sheds light upon the famous passage in Ignatius of Antioch’s Letter to the Ephesians that defines the Eucharistic bread as ‘the medicine of immortality’. By implying that consumption of bread and wine is the cause of human mortality, Homer enables us to notice the revolutionary character of Eucharistic meal as presented by Ignatius: in the Eucharist the Christian dynamic of approaching eternal life not through ecstatic denial of human nature, but rather through its affirmation, finds its fullest expression.
Source: Vox Patrum
DOI: 10.31743/vp.4136
Author: Jan M. Kozłowski
Institution: University of Warsaw
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3100086943