From Bread to Wine: Creation, Worship, and Christian Maturity

by James B. Jordan

Publisher:

Theopolis Books

, 2019

Overview

Biblical rituals are not strange practices or obscure formalities but correspond to the stages of human life, revealing God’s design for how we can emulate His ways. In From Bread to Wine: Creation, Worship, and Christian Maturity, James B. Jordan explores how sin disrupts the rhythms of human life and how biblical rituals restore us to our place in God's historical plan with special emphasis on the motifs of bread and wine throughout the Scriptures.

In the Bible, bread is priestly while wine is kingly and prophetic. Bread comes first and wine later. You eat bread in the morning and drink wine at night. Bread is suitable for children while wine is for adults. Bread is made quickly, but wine takes much longer to ferment and mature. The entire Old Creation, the childhood of humanity (Galatians 4), is the time of bread, while the New Covenant, our maturity in Christ, is the time of bread and wine. Between the two comes the breaking of the bread, the death of Jesus Christ.

Product Details

• Title: From Bread to Wine: Creation, Worship, and Christian Maturity
• Author: James B. Jordan
• Publisher: Theopolis Books
• Print Publication Date: 2019
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 241
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Christian life
• ISBNs: 9781733535663, 1733535667
• Resource ID: LLS:BREADTOWINE
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-02-02T19:39:50Z

About James B. Jordan

James B. Jordan (born 31 December 1949) is a Protestant theologian and author. He is director of Biblical Horizons ministries, a think tank in Niceville, Florida that publishes books, essays and other media dealing with Bible commentary, Biblical Theology, and liturgy.