Subversive Meals

Subversive Meals examines the Lord''s Supper within the sociopolitical context of first-century Roman domination, and concludes that it was an anti-imperial praxis.Although the Christian communal meal looked much like a typical Roman banquet in structure, with a deipnon and a symposion, it was essentially different. The Roman meal supported the empire''s ideology, honored Caesar and the gods, rein...