TY - JOUR AU - Kozłowski, Jan M. PY - 2012/06/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Homer a Eucharystia JF - Vox Patrum JA - VoxP VL - 57 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.31743/vp.4136 UR - https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/vp/article/view/4136 SP - 351-357 AB - <p>An excerpt from the fifth book of the <em>Iliad</em>, in which Homer explains why gods are immortal, sheds light upon the famous passage in Ignatius of Antioch’s <em>Letter to the Ephesians </em>that defines the Eucharistic bread as ‘the medicine of im­mortality’. By implying that consumption of bread and wine is the cause of human mortality, Homer enables us to notice the revolutionary character of Eucharistic meal as presented by Ignatius: in the Eucharist the Christian dynamic of approa­ching eternal life not through ecstatic denial of human nature, but rather through its affirmation, finds its fullest expression.</p> ER -