Join Morningside on Friday, October 23, at 2 PM, to celebrate the publication of Nathaniel Peters’s new book, The Trinitarian Shape of the Eucharist in Medieval Cistercian Theology from CUA Press. Dr. Peters will give an overview of the book and situate it in the study of medieval religion. A festive reception will follow.

Praise from Bp. Erik Varden

“The early iconography of Cîteaux tends to show Cistercians engaged in purposeful work: chopping wood, sowing fields, building houses. The Order’s fecundity was enabled by a spirit of enterprise. The enterprise, though, was theologically informed. Nathaniel Peters traces the shape of a twelfth-century movement that somehow produced, at the same time, mystical literature, novel architecture, and advances in sheep-farming. His elegant study of the intersection of Trinitarian and Eucharistic doctrines in three Cistercian thinkers points towards a timeless truth: the sacramental, incarnational realism of Christian doctrine. That is an emphasis we need right now, in times given to virtual flights of fancy.”

~ Erik Varden, OSCO, Bishop of Trondheim