Augustine Institute

The Augustine Institute joins colleagues and friends here at Carthage College, across the church, and throughout the world in celebrating the life and work of William C. Lazareth. Professor Lazareth died on Saturday, February 23. Before his passing, Dr. Lazareth had prepared additional essays for the Augustine Institute Web site. We are honored to publish them posthumously.

The second of these appears below. As always, we welcome your responses and engagement.

–Leonard G. Schulze

Co-Director

Meals for Mission, Summer 2008

Ecumenical Convergences on the Eucharist

The best way towards unity in eucharistic celebration and communion is the renewal of the eucharist itself in the different churches in regard to teaching and liturgy. Increased mutual understanding of the Biblical and confessional grounds of the eucharist may allow some churches to attain a greater measure of eucharistic communion among themselves, and so bring closer the day when Christ’s divided people will be visibly reunited around the Lord’s Table.

Read Dr. Lazareth’s essay Ecumenical Convergences on the Eucharist,
then join the discussion.