Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism: From Thanksgiving to Communion

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Preface
Acknowledgments
1 The Call of Unity
	1.1 Ecumenical and Catholic
	1.2 Why an Ecumenical Catholic Theology of the Eucharist?
	1.3 Ritual-Praxical and Analytical Discourse on the Eucharist
	1.4 \'\'O Happy Fault\'\'?
	1.5 \'\'You Are Here\'\': A Reflection on From Conflict to Communion
2 Diversity Is the Tradition
	2.1 Apostolic Celebration and Suffering in Ignatius of Antioch
	2.2 Mystagogical Developments: Fourth and Fifth Centuries in East and West
	2.3 Early and Middle Scholastic Developments
		2.3.1 Liturgical Practice
		2.3.2 Spirituality and Devotion
	2.4 High Scholastic Period
3 A Phenomenology of Giving Thanks
	3.1 Why Phenomenology for the Eucharist?
	3.2 A Very Short Introduction to Marion\'s Donation
	3.3 Givenness Recovered: Suspensions of the Gift
	3.4 On the Revelatory Banality of Thanksgiving
	3.5 Acknowledgments and Thanksgiving
4 Eucharistia and Revelation
	4.1 The Givenness of the Self
	4.2 The Givenness of the Covenant Community
	4.3 The Givenness of the World
	4.4 Eucharistia and Eucharistic Theology
5 Ambrose\'s Words and the Roman Canon
	5.1 The Roman Canon and the Eucharist in Ambrose\'s Mystagogical Homilies
	5.2 Thanksgiving: Creation and Covenant
	5.3 Consecration and Offering
6 Augustine and the Assembly\'s Destiny
	6.1 Enacting Thanks-Offering in Ordo Romanus Primus
	6.2 Eucharistia, a Performance of the Eschaton
	6.3 Eschatology and Christian Sacrifice
	6.4 The Mosaics at San Vitale
7 Consecrating and Offering the Ordinary
	7.1 The Roman Canon and Offering Language
	7.2 Three Questions Regarding Sacrifice in the Roman Canon
		7.2.1 First, What Does the Prayer Understand by \'\'Acceptable\'\'?
		7.2.2 \'\'Second, What Is It That Is Sacrificed in the Roman Canon?\'\'
		7.2.3 Third, Who Is the Offerer?
	7.3 Phenomenological Summary
8 The Eschatological Exception
	8.1 Ordinary Discipline and Pastoral Exceptions
	8.2 Eschatological Transparency and Exceptions
	8.3 Hospitality and Hope
9 Outdo One Another in Showing Honor
	9.1 \'\'Outdo One Another in Showing Honor\'\': A New Principle of Ecumenism
	9.2 Our Partial Eucharistic Unity
		9.2.1 Practices Arising from the Open and the Closed Table
		9.2.2 Dual Belonging and the Expansion of Occasional Communion
		9.2.3 Further Practices in Pursuit of Unity
10 Into the Heart of God
	10.1 The Event of the Cross
	10.2 Advent-Presence
	10.3 The Sacrifice of Thanks and Praise
	10.4 Confessional Conversion and a Ritual-Praxical Model for the Recognition of Ministry
	10.5 Connective Tissue
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