In the bestselling author of The Lamb’s Supper and Signs of Life comes an illuminating function that unlocks the many mysteries from the Catholic sacrament from the Eucharist.

Long before the brand new Testament was a record, it had been a sacrament. Jesus known as the Eucharist with the name Christians subsequently gave to the last mentioned books of the Holy Bible. It had been the ‘New Covenant,’ the ‘New Testament,’ in his blood. Christians later expanded the phrase to hide the books made by the apostles and their about Consuming the Word: The New Testament as well as the Eucharist in the Early Church companions; but they did so because these were the books that could be browse at Mass.

This simple and demonstrable historical fact has enormous implications for just how we browse the Bible. In Consuming the Word: The New Testament as well as the Eucharist in the Early Cathedral, Dr. Scott Hahn undertakes an study of a few of Christianity’s most basic terms to find what they meant to the sacred writers, the apostolic preachers, and their first hearers. Moreover, at a time when the Chapel is embarking on a fresh Evangelization he pulls lessons for Christians today to greatly help solidify their knowledge of the why it is Catholics perform what Catholics perform.

Anyone familiar with the rich body of writing that flows so inspiringly in the hand and center of Dr. Hahn knows that he provides profound personal insight to his shown theological experience,” writes Cardinal Donald Wuerl in the foreword to the book. Consuming the term continues in that illustrious tradition. It brings us a robust and welcome guide as we take our put in place the fantastic and challenging function in sharing the good thing.