Four Dimensional Eucharist

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Canon Dr Jessica Martin
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University Church
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The Revd Canon Dr Jessica Martin

The Point of the Eucharist

A point situates perspective; it gives a focus. This lecture asks how the concept of ‘sacrament’ can work in a culture which may choose to strip symbols of their power on a more or less arbitrary basis. It goes on to ponder the story behind Eucharist as one which anticipates such stripping in the divine value it assigns to the weak, the broken and the doomed.

This lecture will be livestreamed on Tuesday 11 May 2021 at 10.00am on our YouTube channel. 

Flat Eucharist: Schemes and Screens

This session thinks about the different 2D modes and conventions upon which we rely for our access to the Eucharist.  It considers the linear nature of ‘argument’ for making Eucharistic meaning, and its limitations.  It looks at the conventions of written, printed liturgy, at how the technology of the page filters, orders and confines what happens.  Informed by the recent experience of the pandemic, it discusses screened Eucharists as technologically-enabled representations which may - or may not - falter on the threshold between communion and its simulation.

This lecture will be livestreamed on Tuesday 11 May 2021 at 11.30am on our YouTube channel. 

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