Сашко, Ирина (Wydawnictwo Towarzystwa Naukowego Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 2016)
The Eucharistic ecclesiology of the metropolitan John Zizioulas provides for centuries-old Eastern Church experience. Taking into account the Holy Scripture and the teaching of the Church Fathers the theological work of Metropolitan of Pergamon has focused upon the Orthodox spiritual and liturgical tradition. According to Zizioulas the Eucharist is the “Christ mystery,” the sacrament that on one hand is the source of other sacraments and on the other hand leads us to the other sacraments. He understands the Divine Liturgy as the foundation of the structure of the Church because it has the ecclesiological function. In every place where the Divine Liturgy is being celebrated with the local Bishop, there is the fullness of the Church (in Greek: πλήρωμα [plêrôma]). Moreover, the Eucharist with its eschatological meaning annunciates the New Heaven and the New Earth.
