Blessed Are the Hungry: Meditations on the Lord’s Supper
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
The Lord’s Supper is the world in miniature; it has cosmic significance. Within it we find clues to the meaning of all creation and all history, to the nature of God and the nature of man, to the mystery of the world, which is Christ. It is not confined to the first day, for its power fills seven. Though the table stands at the center, its effects stretch out to the four corners of the earth.
This collection includes twenty-eight of theologian Peter Leithart’s Eucharistic meditations on the Supper. They are immensely practical and thick with exegesis.
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- Presents a series of short reflections that unpack the biblical and spiritual meaning of the Lord’s Supper.
- Emphasizes that the Lord’s Supper is a foretaste of the heavenly banquet.
- Suggests that the habits and truths practiced at the communion table should transform believers’ daily lives, influencing their relationships, work, and worship.
- Love Made Food
- Feasting in Faith
- Memorial of the Lamb
- Holy Things for the Holy Ones
- Jealousy Test
- Proclaiming the Priest’s Death
- Land of Milk and Honey
- Showbread and Sonship
- Continual Feasting
- In the Midst of My Enemies
- Sweet Words
- Lady Wisdom’s Banquet
- Wine on the Lees
- Zealous for His Land
- New Covenant, New Meal
- The Good Shepherd
- A Place at the Table
- From Temple to City
- The Cup of the Lord
- Boisterous with Wine
- Contempt for Yahweh’s Altar
- Table Manners of the Kingdom
- The Joy of the Father
- Blessed City, Heavenly Salem
- Flee Idolatry
- Justification and Table Fellowship
- Communion in Christ
- For You Shall Be Filled
- The Way Things Really Ought To Be: Eucharist, Eschatology, and Culture
Meditations
Closing Essay
- Title: Blessed Are the Hungry: Meditations on the Lord's Supper
- Author: Peter Leithart
- Publisher: Canon Press
- Print Publication Date: 2000
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781885767738, 1885767730
- Resource ID: LLS:BLSSDRHLRDSSPPR
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-08-14T21:17:20Z
Peter Leithart is President of Theopolis Institute and serves as Teacher at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Birmingham. He is the author of many books, including a two-volume commentary on Revelation (T&T Clark, 2018), God of Hope (Athanasius, 2022), On Earth As In Heaven (Lexham, 2022), and a forthcoming book on God the Creator (IVP). He writes a fortnightly column at FirstThings.com, and has published articles in many periodicals, both popular and academic.
Leithart has served in two pastorates: He was pastor of Reformed Heritage Presbyterian Church (now Trinity Presbyterian Church), Birmingham, Alabama from 1989 to 1995, and was pastor of Trinity Reformed Church, Moscow, Idaho, from 2003-2013. From 1998 and 2013 he taught theology and literature fulltime at New St. Andrews College, Moscow, Idaho. He received an A.B. in English and History from Hillsdale College in 1981, and a Master of Arts in Religion and a Master of Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in 1986 and 1987. In 1998 he received his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in England.
He and his wife, Noel, have ten children and fifteen grandchildren.