Mystery Manifested: Toward a Phenomenology of the Eucharist in Its Liturgical Context

Gschwandtner, Christina  M.

doi:10.3390/rel10050315

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Mystery Manifested: Toward a Phenomenology of the Eucharist in Its Liturgical Context

Christina M. Gschwandtner

Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA

Religions 2019, 10(5), 315; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10050315

Received: 15 April 2019 / Revised: 4 May 2019 / Accepted: 6 May 2019 / Published: 9 May 2019

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sacramental Theology: Theory and Practice from Multiple Perspectives)

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This article explores three contemporary phenomenological analyses of the Eucharist by the French phenomenologists Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Yves Lacoste, and Emmanuel Falque, arguing that their descriptions are too excessive and individual, failing to take into account the broader liturgical context for eucharistic experience. The second part of the discussion seeks to develop an alternate phenomenological account of eucharistic experience that takes Eucharist seriously as a corporeal and communal phenomenon that is encountered within a liturgical horizon and which requires a liturgical intentionality to be prepared for and directed toward it. View Full-Text

Keywords: Eucharist; liturgy; phenomenology; Jean-Luc Marion; Jean-Yves Lacoste; Emmanuel Falque

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