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- Title
The Church Lives by the Eucharist, the Eucharist Lives in the Church: The Ontological Identity of the Believers.
- Authors
Proniewski, Andrzej
- Abstract
The object of the article is to detail the reasons used by Joseph Ratzinger to justify the binary ontological relationship between the Church and the Eucharist, projecting onto the identity of believers. With the use of an analytical-deductive method, it is argued that the Eucharist is not only an efficient cause for the existence of the Church and the continuance of believers in Christ, but it constitutes its essence and is the guarantor of the ontological identity of believers reflecting their mystical union with Christ and projecting onto the vitality of the Church. Based on Ratzinger's theological writings, it is demonstrated that he found a justification for the complementarity of this relationship in the Christological-pneumatological dimension of the essence of the Church and the Eucharist expressed in the concepts: People of God, Mystical Body of Christ, and Community. He started from the event of the Last Supper as the foundation of the interdependence of Church and Eucharist. He emphasised the need to understand liturgical celebration to justify the vitality of the Church. He demonstrated the Christological/ontological principle linking the Church and the Eucharist on the basis of one faith, worship, supremacy, and fraternity.
- Subjects
BENEDICT XVI, Pope, 1927-2022; LORD'S Supper; HIZBALLAH (Lebanon); WORSHIP (Christianity); WORSHIP; BROTHERLINESS; GOD; GREEK letter societies
- Publication
Collectanea Theologica, 2023, Vol 93, Issue 4, p85
- ISSN
0137-6985
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21697/ct.2023.93.4.07