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The Living Banquet: Tracing the Layers of the Eucharist
The Living Banquet invites believers who have too often hurried past the Lord’s Table to linger, taste, and rediscover the mystery at the Church’s heart. With a storyteller’s warmth and a scholar’s precision, Corné Gieselbach peels back ten interwoven “dimensions” of the Eucharist, revealing why the earliest Christians viewed this feast the source and summit of the Christian life.
Drawing on Scripture, the Church Fathers, and today’s pastoral challenges, Gieselbach leads readers from the Passover lamb to the marriage supper of the Lamb, from house-church simplicity to cathedral splendour, from personal devotion to communal mission. Along the way he offers gentle correctives to modern neglect and a compelling vision for weekly, expectant Communion that forms a holy, unified, and missional Church.
Whether you approach the Table with reverence, curiosity, or uncertainty, The Living Banquet will deepen your hunger for Christ’s real presence and equip you to rebuild worship around the altar that has always been Christianity’s true centre.
Drawing on Scripture, the Church Fathers, and today’s pastoral challenges, Gieselbach leads readers from the Passover lamb to the marriage supper of the Lamb, from house-church simplicity to cathedral splendour, from personal devotion to communal mission. Along the way he offers gentle correctives to modern neglect and a compelling vision for weekly, expectant Communion that forms a holy, unified, and missional Church.
Whether you approach the Table with reverence, curiosity, or uncertainty, The Living Banquet will deepen your hunger for Christ’s real presence and equip you to rebuild worship around the altar that has always been Christianity’s true centre.
243 pages, Paperback
Published August 4, 2025
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