This article considers the different aspects informing the Christian view on abortion. She first draws attention to how we view man. Is man valued in his relationship with God or can man be understood only in terms of his personal experience? She further reflects on views in the early church on abortion.

What was the place and understanding of the Lord's Supper in the early church? How can a recovery of the early church's practice of the Eucharist help us to live in Christ in a more profound way? How is the grace of God mediated to us through the celebration of the Lord's Supper? These questions are reflected upon in relation to the developments in the Eucharist during the Middle Ages and the Reformation.

How did the early church understand the function of the Lord's Supper (Eucharist)? The paper is an attempt to recover the significance of the Lord's Supper through a renewed understanding of the practice of the Eucharist by the church in the earliest period of church history after the apostles.