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Understanding of the different Protestant interpretations of the Lord’s Supper, of the eastern and Catholic interpretations of the Eucharist.

The Eucharist is the sacrament of unity. It is, however, the reason for disunity and delineation, too. Different interpretations of the Lord’s Supper will be treated, and also the significance which the various Christian denominations assign to the Eucharist as well as how the relation of Eucharist and ecclesiology can be defined.

Lecture.

Oral examination. Subjects are the subjects of lecture, and own study of: 1. the chapter “Eucharist” of the Faith and Order paper no. 111, “Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry”, and 2. the Catholic response to the chapter “Eucharist” in: Sekretariat der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz (Hrsg.), Sekretariat für die Einheit der Christen: Eine katholische Stellungnahme zu den Konvergenzerklärungen der Kommission für Glauben und Kirchenverfassung des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen Taufe, Eucharistie und Amt, Nr. 79, Bonn 1987.

– Lothar Lies SJ, Eucharistie in ökumenischer Verantwortung, Graz 1996

– Horst Georg Pöhlmann, Abriss der Dogmatik: ein Kompendium, 6., überarb. und erw. Aufl., Gütersloh 2002

For Diploma Programme Catholic Theology: positive completion of compulsory module 1 (first part of studies).