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- Title
The Contemporary Protestant Seder: Anachronistic Revisionism?
- Authors
Wilkinson, Timothy J.
- Abstract
In recent years the Seder has been enthusiastically embraced by evangelical Protestants, who celebrate the ritual for what are clearly religious, as opposed to cultural or political, reasons. However, contemporary reconstructions of the order of the Passover meal at the time of Christ are all speculative; the Jewish Seder that is known today did not take its present form until around 200 AD. This paper explores the question of why so many American Christians are willing to forgo the celebration of the Eucharist as the fulfillment of the Passover sacrifice in favor of the innovations of a later Judaism. A critique of the practice as informed by the Orthodox Christian tradition is offered.
- Subjects
JUDAISM -- Relations; SEDER; REVISIONISM (Christian theology); LORD'S Supper; ORTHODOX Christianity; PROTESTANT churches
- Publication
Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, 2015, Vol 56, Issue 3-4, p391
- ISSN
0024-5895
- Publication type
Article