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	Agape
		Agape is a Greek word translated in the New Testament of the Bible as "love" or "charity." Agape is ranked by Christian moral theologians with faith and hope as a basic virtue, and Saint Paul called it the greatest of the virtues.
		Agape is in contrast at both points: it is not a love of the worthy, and it is not a love that desires to possess.
		During the fourth century the agape became increasingly the object of disfavor, apparently because of disorders at the celebration and also because problems were raised by the expanding membership of the church, and an increasing emphasis was being placed on the Eucharist.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txw/agape.htm (4513 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Agape
		feast was not merely a commemoration; it was a true communion, and the food brought by the guests was really meant for the use of the departed.
		agape, as we shall see, was destined, during the few centuries that it lasted, to fall, from time to time, into abuses.
		feasts were held, to which each of the guests contributed his share, and the supper with which the meeting ended might very well be allowed by the authorities as a funerary one.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01200b.htm (1689 words)

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		The name Agape or "love-feast," as an expression denoting the brotherly common meals of the early church, though of constant use and in the post-canonical literature from the time of Ignatius onward, is found in the New Testament only in Jude 1:12 and in 2 Peter 2:13 according to a very doubtful reading.
		The fact that the name Agape or love-feast used in Jude 1:12 (Revised Version) is found early in the 2nd century and often afterward as a technical expression for the religious common meals of the church puts the meaning of Jude's reference beyond doubt.
		At the end of this feast, bread and wine were taken, according to the Lord's command, and after thanksgiving to God were eaten and drunk in remembrance of Christ and as a special means of communion with the Lord Himself and through Him with one another.
	www.lifenetradio.org /lovelab/18agapai.htm (677 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		The Roman feast of Vulcanalia was on Aug. 23.
		The Jewish Feast of Tabernacles (mid-October) was observed as a thanksgiving for harvest.
		Austron, a goddess of fertility and sunrise whose feast* was celebrated at the spring equinox, from austra-, from PIE aus- "to shine" (especially of the dawn).
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=feast (2737 words)

	The Last Supper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Early Christianity created a remembrance service that took place in the form of meals known as agape feasts.
		Agape is one of the Greek words for love.
		Some echoes of the agape meal may remain in fellowship or potluck dinners held at some churches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Last_Supper (608 words)

	Agape Love Feast
		The history of the agape love feasts coincides, until the end of the 2nd century, with that of the eucharist (q.v.), and it is doubtful whether the following detailed account of the agape given in Tertullian's Apology (c.
		The term necessarily extends to the love of one's fellow man. The Church Fathers used agape in the sense of "love feast" to designate both a rite (using bread and wine) and a meal of fellowship to which the poor were invited.
		Others interpret agape as a fellowship meal held in imitation of gatherings attended by Jesus and his disciples; the Eucharist (emphasizing Christ's death) is believed to have been joined to this meal later but eventually to have become totally separated from it.
	www.piney.com /AgapeBrit1911.html (1595 words)

	agape - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		The name Agape or "love-feast," as an expression denoting the brotherly common meals of the early church, though of constant use and in the post-canonical literature from the time of Ignatius onward, is found in the New Testament only in Jude 1:12 and in 2 Peter 2:13 according to a very doubtful reading.
		The fact that the name Agape or love-feast used in Jude 1:12 (Revised Version) is found early in the 2nd century and often afterward as a technical expression for the religious common meals of the church puts the meaning of Jude's reference beyond doubt.
		In the opinion of the great majority of scholars the Agape was a meal at which not only bread and wine but all kinds of viands were used, a meal which had the double purpose of satisfying hunger and thirst and giving expression to the sense of Christian brotherhood.
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?word=agape&action=Lookup&search.x=13&search.y=8 (866 words)

	LOVE FEAST - Holman Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org
		The Love Feast or Agape (meal) was a significant dimension of the fellowship and worship of the early church.
		While the only explicit New Testament reference to the agape meal is found (agapai in Greek) in Jude 1:12, allusions to the practice may be seen in other New Testament texts.
		The origin of the love feast is probably to be found in the religious fellowship meals which were a common practice among first-century Jews.
	www.studylight.org /dic/hbd/view.cgi?number=T3930 (511 words)

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		Agape is one of the three terms for love in Koine Greek.
		In common usage, the term agape means, “to place first in one’s interests or concerns.” As Paul used the term, it meant to place Christ and the believing community first in one’s concerns.
		The earliest Christians understood the Eucharist as an agape feast, where the unity of the believers in the love of God and the love for one another was ratified by the reading of scripture, the manifestation of spiritual gifts, and the eating of the body and drinking of the blood of the savior.
	www.sju.edu /hsb/cjbe/presentations/Aspan.doc (2715 words)

	The Agape Feast Catholic Encyclopedia
		However, the Agape was for the poor and was really a feast with and for the dead much like the Marzeah condemned by Amos 5-8 as a musical festival which destroyed the Feast upon the Word of the Living God.
		Yet the funeral feast was not merely a commemoration; it was a true communion, and the food brought by the guests was really meant for the use of the departed.
		An example of the halls in which the faithful met to celebrate the agape may be seen in the vestibule of the Catacomb of Domitilla.
	www.piney.com /AgapeCE.html (2303 words)

	Agape feast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Agape Feast was a love feast celebrated in apostolic times on any day, in addition to the Eucharist.
		As class distinctions became set in the early church, the Agape Feast began to fall out of favor.
		Eventually the practice ceased in the church, while communion remained.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agape_feast (73 words)

	Love Feast at Scroll Publishing Co.
		Yet, that the Eucharist was celebrated at the end of the love feast (or, as part of it) is quite clear from verses 23-30 of that passage.
		At the end of this feast, bread and wine were taken according to the Lord’s command, and after thanksgiving to God were eaten and drunk in remembrance of Christ, and as a special means of communion with the Lord Himself and through Him with one another.
		The agape was thus related to the Eucharist as Christ’s last Passover [was] to the Christian rite which he grafted upon it.
	www.scrollpublishing.com /store/LoveFeast.html (1378 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Agape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Agape (AH-gah-pay), sometimes rendered as Agapé, is the English transliteration of the Greek word Αγαπη, meaning "love".
		Early Christians referred to their rite of common worship as an "Agape feast", which appears to have been characterized by group sexual activity as well as the sharing of the Eucharist.
		Agape can be considered as a devotional love of adoration, perhaps exemplified by the love of a devotee for their guru/patron/deity etc...
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Agape (544 words)

	The Observance of Passover Today
		We have found that Passover is a remarkable typological feast which celebrates the past fulfillment of the Abrahamic covenant at the Exodus, and yet it points to the future fulfillment of the Messianic ingathering of all the nations.
		Feasts like Passover which are linked to the sacrificial system have been viewed historically as ceremonial and typological, that is, of a temporary nature that came to an end when Christ, the Antitype, died on the Cross.
		The purpose of the Passover feast is twofold.
	www.biblicalperspectives.com /books/festivals_1/3.html (14690 words)

	The Lord's Supper - Feast or Famine? \| Articles \| NTRF
		The Lord's Supper, sometimes called communion, the Table of the Lord, the agape or the Eucharist, is limited in most churches to a sip of wine and a piece of bread.
		This “fellowship in feasting” theme is continued on in the book of Acts, where we learn that the early church devoted themselves to “fellowship in the breaking of bread” (2:42, literal translation).
		It is to be partaken of as a feast, in a joyful, wedding atmosphere rather than in a somber, funeral atmosphere.
	www.ntrf.org /articles/article_detail.php?PRKey=9 (5035 words)

	Christian Seder - About Seder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Seder is the Feast of Unleavened Bread mentioned twice in Luke's Acts of the Apostles (12:3 and 20:6).
		It was referred to as the Agape Feast and Eucharist.
		Agape is the Greek word for Christian Love, that Love we have for one another.
	www.christianseder.com /about.html (548 words)

	Practicing Our Faith: Library
		The early church practiced the Love Feast or Agape meal, and my denomination, the Church of the Brethren, is among several modern denominations, continuing this practice today.
		In the Church of the Brethren, the twice-annual Love Feast consists of three parts: the footwashing, the fellowship meal, and the bread and cup.
		The Brethren practice of Love Feast is modeled on the practice of the early church, and originated as a result of strict adherence to scriptural teaching.
	www.practicingourfaith.org /cfm/library/view.cfm?id=508&page=1 (2381 words)

	Biblical Horizons » No. 2: The Love Feast
		We use the term "Love Feast" or "Agape" (pronounced "ah-GHA-pay") to denote a common meal for the Church held in connection with the Lord’s Supper, a slightly ritualized version of today’s covered-dish supper.
		From the writings of the Church Fathers it is clear that Agapes were frequently held in connection with the Lord’s Supper.
		Paul states that by abusing the Agape, by not waiting for one another and by not obeying Jesus’ command in Luke 22:17 ("Take this and share it among yourselves"), they are calling down judgment on themselves when the eat the sacrament.
	www.biblicalhorizons.com /rite-reasons/no-2-the-love-feast (3906 words)

	The Agape Feast
		The Agape Feast was the Love Feast in apostolic times and was often celebrated daily.
		After everyone had their fill, a collection was taken for the widows and orphans, a holy kiss of charity was given, and correspondence from other churches were read and answered.
		Many times through history has the church tried to pick up where it left off in the purity of the early church, but the true agape love of the brethren is shown in the unity, not the purity.
	latter-rain.com /ltrain/agape.html (455 words)

	Communion
		Communion is the commemoration of the resurrection feast of joy and the high point of unity in Christian worship.
		The second communion was called the Agape Feast or Love Feast where this brotherhood fellowship went beyond the spiritual communion into an economic and social communalism prompting souls to acts of charity.
		The Agape feast, as lovely and desirable as it was lingered on for some generations but was soon forgotten.
	www.latter-rain.com /theology/comm.htm (1689 words)

	Lord's Supper Study #5: Disorders at the Lord's Table - Part I
		The love feast, the agap[e, is much spoken about in history, and it might be helpful for us to realize what occurred---not as it is ordered in the Word of God, you will remember, but as it is described in the writings of the early church fathers.
		The only other reference to the love feast is the one in I Corinthians, chapter 11, where the abuses of the love feast as it was related to the Lord's Supper were rebuked by the Apostle Paul.
		These individuals were gathering together at the love feast, and they were gulping down their food before they had a chance to share it with anybody else.
	livingbiblestudies.org /study/JT47/005.html (3919 words)

	agape- + (Greek > Latin: love feast of the early Christians; love, love feast; to love).
		The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion.
		The ancient Greek masculine form of agape and the name of a saint from Caesarea who was martyred under the Roman emperor Diocletian.
		Agape originally personified the rite of sexual communion, as practiced in Aphrodite's temples and adopted by some early Christian sects as a Tantric type of 'spiritual marriage'.
	www.wordinfo.info /words/index/info/view_unit/46/?letter=A&spage=4 (561 words)

	Agape Feast - Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It is called the Love Feast, after the practice of the Apostolic Church which often preceded the Lord's Supper with a common meal partaken in love and fellowship.
		In the Love Feast, the symbolism is that the Christian shares with his or her fellow-Christians.
		Other than the common meal, the Love Feast is a service largely of music, chiefly the singing of hymns of love and fellowship.
	www.wv-cis.net /~trinityc/MoravianLoveFeast.htm (367 words)

	MOUNT MORIAH AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The AGAPE FEAST...commonly called the LOVE FEAST was observed among the Church as a means to provide fellowship foe the members.
		And while the modern Church has not carried over all of the elements of the love feasts as they were observed, it is important that love feasts continue to be observed in the Church.
		After the bread and the water have been distributed, a brief explanation of love feast may be given, followed by a prayer, the water is consumed, and the bread broken among the celebrates, a greeting of well wishing exchanged.
	home.cfl.rr.com /mtmoriah/LoveFeast.html (590 words)

	The Church on the Rock - Worship
		Neither could it be called a 'love feast.' Their actions were condemned by Paul in no uncertain terms, not only the selfishness, but the very idea of having a meal for nourishment as a part of the assembly.
		The love feast he mentions could be another name for the Lord's supper or it could be something different.
		These references tend to indicate that the love feast in early secular church history was a meal provided by an individual Christian in his own home for poor people in application of Luke 14:12-13.
	www.oldpaths.com /Archive/Davison/Roy/Allen/1940/worship.html (4459 words)

	The Agape Feast Catholic Encyclopedia
		The celebration of funeral feasts in honour of the dead dates back almost to the beginnings of the worship of the departed.
		Because the Lord's Supper remembered the Death of Jesus, the Agape as a funeral feast was honored by some early Christians.
		However, the Agape was for the poor and was really a feast with and for the dead much like the Marzeah condemned by Amos 5-8 as a musical festival which destroyed the Feast upon the Word of the Living God.
	piney.com /AgapeCE.html (2303 words)

	2000 Annual Meeting - Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The three-part love feast--footwashing, agape meal, and celebration of bread and cup--can be understood as a dramatic enactment of christological modalities that moved toward eliminating the mediational distance between representation and event.
		This examination will reveal that for the early Anabaptists, the religious activities of footwashing, agape meal, and celebration of bread and cup facilitated participation in different aspects of Christ's identity, and culminated in an event that was not ritual or sign but an ontological oneness with Christ.
		Participation in the love feast, a meal served between Sabbath services, identified members of the Sandemanian church as only members could participate of this meal.
	www.aarweb.org /annualmeet/2000/pbook/abstract.asp?Abs=A24 (794 words)

	BAPTIST STANDARD: Agape Meal
		Broadway started Agape Meal about two and a half years ago, he said, noting several factors coalesced to make the ministry possible.
		Broadway members agreed Agape Meal is a highlight of their week, a moment of community they anticipate eagerly.
		One participant who relates uniquely to both groups stressed the Agape Meal is a way all the participants share in the gospel.
	www.baptiststandard.com /1997/10_22/pages/agape.html (1199 words)

	"The Heart of the Believer" by Jim Belderis
		It was usually preceded by the agape, the feast of love and charity, where those who had the means presented their poorer brethren with gifts.
		Eventually the feasts of love and charity were banished, while the liturgy itself became more and more elaborate, with major regional differences -- and strictly prescribed interpretations.
		I was inspired by the spirit of the agape and the original ceremony -- by the freedom to contemplate and experience the mystery of sacrifice, unity, and brotherhood.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/sunrise/47-97-8/xt-jbel.htm (875 words)

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