The Eucharist: Bodies, Bread, and Resurrection

by Bieler, Andrea

• ISBN13: 9780800638672
• ISBN10: 0800638670
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

Bieler and Schottroff bring together the best of contemporary scholarship on ritual theory and practice, Eucharistic origins, the Eucharist and eschatology, the Eucharist and world hunger, the global economy, and the dynamics of torture in a dramatic new vision of the transformative power of the Eucharist for our world. Reflection questions lead readers into the issues raised in each chapter.

Author Biography

Andrea Bieler is Associate Professor of Christian Worship at Pacific School of Religion.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
A Eucharist in Advent	p. 1
The Eucharistic Life	p. 4
Sacramental Permeability
Eschatological Imagination
The Eucharist in the New Testament	p. 8
The Sequence of the Meal
The Community at Table
Jesus' Interpretive Words
This Book	p. 11
Eschatological Imagination	p. 15
A Procession to the Table	p. 15
Expectation: Waiting with Eager Longing	p. 19
Imagination: Come, See, and Taste	p. 23
The Fabric of Eschatological Imagination	p. 25
Making Sense of New Testament Eschatology	p. 30
"Today"
The New Covenant
The Arrival of the Son of Man
The Coming of God
The Captivity of Eschatological Imagination	p. 41
Colonial Desire
Dualistic Thinking
Colonized Imagination
The Eucharist as Eschatological Meal	p. 49
Christ Has Died, Christ Is Risen, Christ Will Come Again	p. 49
"I Will Not Drink Again of the Fruit of the Vine..."	p. 53
"Proclaim the Messiah's Death until He Comes"	p. 56
"The New Covenant in My Blood"	p. 58
The Eucharist as Experience of Resurrection	p. 62
"Let Your Church Be Gathered into Your Reign": Eucharist in the Didache	p. 65
The Bread of Life in Two Economies	p. 69
The Bread of Death: Dieting America and Global Food Politics	p. 70
The Hope of the Hungry in the NewTestament	p. 74
Jesus' Hunger
Bread Miracles and God's Economy
"Not by Bread Alone": Jesus' Temptations (Matthew4:l-ll)
The Holy Meal and the Homo Oeconomicus	p. 84
The Imagination of the Homo Oeconomicus
The Alternative Economics of Eucharist	p. 91
Eucharist as Gift Exchange
Sustainability: Abundant Love and Limited Resources
The Mimicry of Market Exchange	p. 100
Dissent from the Omnipotence of Homo Oeconomicus	p. 102
Giving Thanks
Returning Gifts
Consecrating Private Property
Interceding
The Body Politics of Eucharist	p. 127
Real Bodies at the Meal	p. 127
"Witness God's Welcome": A Communion
Celebration (Colette Jackson)
The Body as Metaphor as Body
"This is My Body"
The Body Politics of the State	p. 142
Making the Tortured Body Visible
"My Body-Given for You": Eucharist and the Language of Sacrifice
Eschatological Remembrance (Anamnesis)	p. 157
The Act of Remembering	p. 158
What We Remember	p. 162
How We Remember	p. 166
Reciprocal Activity
Anamnetic Empathy
Embodied Practice
Mapping Sites of Anamnesis	p. 172
Body Memory
Bruce Saunkeah's Story: "I Find Myself Buying a Suit"
Cultural Memory
Richetta and Ra Amen's Journey: Memories of Captivity
Place Memory
Bernauer Strabe, Berlin: Chapel of Reconciliation
Anamnesis as Dangerous Memory	p. 196
Notes	p. 197
Bibliography	p. 229
Index of Biblical Verses	p. 241
Index of Names and Subjects	p. 243
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