Title: The Holy Thursday revolution /
Authors: Bruteau, Beatrice, 1930-2014.
Publisher: Orbis Books,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Maundy Thursday.; Last Supper.; Lord's Supper.; Foot washing (Rite); Christian sociology.
Abstract: How can the world evolve from a culture of war and domination to one of friendship and communion? Philosopher Beatrice Bruteau shows how the two teaching events of Holy Thursday: the Footwashing and the Supper incited the Christian revolution with the power to repeat itself on every scale of social organization -- even now.
Contents: The ills of the world: the politics of domination -- Our basic insecurity: the psychology of domination -- How we identify ourselves: the metaphysics and logic -- Story I: The Jesus ministry and Holy Thursday -- Person and perichōrēsis: a new metaphysics -- Living inside God: the psychology of love -- "In the days of the Messiah": friendship, communion, politics -- "You can't change human nature!" -- It's the nature of nature to change -- Memes, mysticism, and phase transitions -- Story II: The revelation at Sinai: a phase transition -- Jesus and the covenant community -- Implementing the friendship covenant community -- Partners with God in creation.