Homer a Eucharystia

• Authors: Jan M. Kozłowski

Title variants

EN

Homer and the Eucharist

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

An excerpt from the fifth book of the Iliad, in which Homer explains why gods are immortal, sheds light upon the famous passage in Ignatius of Antioch’s Letter to the Ephesians that defines the Eucharistic bread as ‘the medicine of im­mortality’. By implying that consumption of bread and wine is the cause of human mortality, Homer enables us to notice the revolutionary character of Eucharistic meal as presented by Ignatius: in the Eucharist the Christian dynamic of approa­ching eternal life not through ecstatic denial of human nature, but rather through its affirmation, finds its fullest expression.

Keywords

PL

Homer; Eucharystia

EN

Homer; Eucharist

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Vox Patrum
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 57
• Pages: 351-357

Dates

published

2012-06-15

Contributors

author

Jan M. Kozłowski

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/vp.4136