From Tablet to Table
Where Community Is Found and Identity Is Formed
by Leonard I. Sweet · NavPress · 2014
Book summary
A critique of screen-shaped isolation and a constructive theology of the table as the place where identity, memory, hospitality, and community are formed.
Chapter & section guide
From Tablet to Table
Digital connection cannot replace embodied communion.
The Table as School
Meals teach belonging, gratitude, conversation, and patience.
Identity
People discover who they are through shared stories and practices.
Hospitality
The table makes room for stranger, neighbor, and difference.
Memory
Food and ritual carry family and faith across generations.
Jesus at Table
Christ repeatedly reveals the kingdom through meals.
Eucharistic Life
Communion trains the church in receiving and sharing grace.
Reclaiming the Table
Homes and congregations can resist fragmentation through intentional meals.
Editorial note: these are original thematic summaries prepared as a research and reading aid, not quotations from the book itself.