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• W278619668 abstract "This article, a theologically thick description of opening the eucharistic table to all, is rooted in Aidan Kavanaugh's conviction that liturgical theology is primarily that knowledge of God generated by the encounter of Christian congregations with God in the liturgy. Thus, this work began with a working group of four Open Table Episcopal parishes reflecting together on what they have found of God, Christ, church, and grace within their practice. The vision that emerged from this reflection was centered in a complex theology of grace and response inherent in Christ's parable of the Prodigal Son. This central commitment was, moreover, structured around intuitions concerning the universal status of all persons as God's children, the relational character of grace, the communal character of Christ's presence in the Eucharist, a Christocentric ecclesiology defining the church by the commitments at its center, and a missional understanding of baptism. As the practice of inviting all present to receive the bread and the wine of the Eucharist grows among Protestant, and especially Episcopal, parishes, some are concerned that this well-intentioned gesture is theologically confused, if not vacuous, and that its continuation is liturgically, pastorally, and canonically problematic. Those who have questioned the practice - most notably, James Farwell in the Anglican Theological Review - have pushed proponents of the Open Table to reflect upon and articulate a coherent theology that would make faithful sense out of this innovation in the church's ecclesial life; indeed, this was a central purpose of his article, for which I am tremendously grateful.1 These questions have also been raised in more neutral forums. The most recent General Convention of the Episcopal Church shelved the discussion of opening the table until precisely this kind of further reflection could be undertaken. This reflection has, of course, already commenced- especially in Kathryn Tanner s initial response to Farwell's query.2 My intention is to extend Tanners argument through attention to one notable aspect of this practice: its reality as a liturgical theology that arose not through academic reflection on the nature of the Eucharist, but in the Ufe of individual Christian communities as that life was shaped by their practice of the sacraments.3 The practice has emerged in the Episcopal Church, for example, not through the work of the Standing Liturgical Commission or the General Convention, but parish by parish, as local communities have discerned in it a faithful response to the gospel. It comes to us, then, as a first-order theology - a performance by a growing segment of the people of God of an understanding of God, Christ, grace, church, sacrament, and world through their practice of God, Christ, grace, church, sacrament, and world in their communal life. Indeed, as Aidan Kavanaugh argues, the presence of such first-order theology is evident in the life of a community in the liturgical shifts that occur out of the (almost chaotic) encounter of that community with God in the liturgy. The Open Table, its proponents will argue, is such a liturgical shift.4 This article is grounded in the conviction that we need to begin any theological exploration of the Open Table by teasing out at a secondary level the theologies implicit in the practice of these communities. The reflections in this text are rooted in the work of a theological reflection group consisting of members (several lay people and one ordained person) of four parishes in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, funded by the Valparaiso Project.5 Our group provided a space and a structure for members of these four parishes to become more proficient at articulating explicitly the theological values and understandings inherent in their practice of the Open Table, especially in its relation to their communal life. The hope was to draw from these Christian practitioners a thick description of the theological vision embedded in opening the table, in order to inform more fully both their practice and the broader church's understanding of their practice. …" @default.
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• W278619668 title "Opening the Table: The Body of Christ and God's Prodigal Grace" @default.
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