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The Eucharist as an Act of Political Subversion Companion Tom O'Loughlin

For the final session of our Towards Pentecost 2022 series we were delighted to welcome back as our companion Tom O'Loughlin. Tom shared on images from the history of the Church in the first 200 years of the common era and allowed us to get a sense of how the early Church grew in its understanding of the Eucharist. He reflected on worship within Judaism and the importance of the Temple and worship within the Roman Empire and how the early Church communities gathering round a table as an egalitarian community is a very subversive act to both Second Temple Judaism and Roman State Religion. Tom then invited us to think about that history and to think about our own experience and see if there is any mismatch. And if there was a mismatch, then we had to tease out the theological question. Our Q&A provided a wonderful opportunity to do that as participants raised a wide range of questions/comments