The Scandal of Sacramentality

“Hancock notes that, although, on the whole, eucharistically centred Churches in the West are in decline, popular culture is often full of Eucharistic allusions. Literary and artistic media, in particular those in the post-modern idiom, are often better at keeping the paradoxes intact, and expressing dimensions of the eucharist…which more specifically theological writing tends to airbrush out.”-Revd Dr Edward Dowler, Church Times, 9 October 2015”Anglicans, Catholics, and even Baptists could read this work with interest. Each would find something that accords with and destabilizes their tradition’s dogmatic and liturgical norms. Yet that is precisely the author’s point: none of us have the sacrament within our grasp.“-Chris Dodson, Reviews in Religion and Theology 23:1, 2016

Brannon Hancock is a pastor and theologian in the Church of the Nazarene and an adjunct professor at Trevecca Nazarene University and Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University. His work has appeared in Literature and Theology, The Journal of Religion and Film, and Conversations in Religion and Theology.