The Eucharist in African Perspective

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" The Eucharist in African Perspective "
James Chukwuma Okoye

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1077075
Doc. No	:	LA120704
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157338302X00242‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	James Chukwuma Okoye
Title & Author	:	The Eucharist in African Perspective [Article]\ James Chukwuma Okoye
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Mission Studies
Date	:	2002
Volume/ Issue Number	:	19/1
Page No	:	159–172
Abstract	:	"In this article, Nigerian James Chukwuma Okoye explores the idea of an inculturated African Eucharist. After a discussion of the possibility of a truly African Eucharist according to Catholic teaching, Okoye outlines several elements that would need to be present in any Eucharist that would claim to be authentically African: it would be a sacrifice that would maintain the "ontological balance" between God and human beings; it would be richly communal in nature; it would function as an access to mystical power; it would have a healing role in the community; it would be a liturgy that would be celebrated in word, song, body movements and dance. Okoye then briefly discusses the Zairean rite of Eucharist as a concrete example of a eucharistic celebration that is rooted both in the Roman Rite as well as in local, African traditions."
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157338302X00242‬