The Wedding Feast of the Lamb: Eros, the Body, and the Eucharist

Emmanuel Falque

Published by Fordham University Press 2016

The Wedding Feast of the Lamb

Eros, the Body, and the Eucharist

Emmanuel Falque
Translated by: George Hughes

In the series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823270439

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The abyss, force, chaos, eros, animality and even bestiality, are fundamental aspects of human beings that neither philosophy not theology can safely ignore. We need to question today "in a way that responds to the needs of our time" (Vatican II) the meaning of "this is my body." To say "this is my body," whether in the context of the intimate erotic dialogue of a wedded couple, or the gift of God in the eucharist, does not simply send us back to subjective experience of "the flesh." It is a cultural problem as well as one of religious belief. "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" (John 6:52). "Hoc est corpus meum" has shaped all our culture as well as our modernity.

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Falque Emmanuel :

Emmanuel Falque is Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Paris. His most recent book in English is The Wedding Feast of the Lamb: Eros, the Body, and the Eucharist.Hughes George :

George Hughes has served as Professor in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo.

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...a generative text for advanced study of worship and a deeper engagement of phenomenological approaches to sacramental theology.

—Kevin Hart:
Animality, embodiedness, and eros: such, for Emmanuel Falque, are the grounds for our hope as we kneel before the altar and await the words of consecration in the Eucharist and behold not only what nourishes us here but also an intimacy promised to us hereafter. Here, as a complement to theologies of the Eucharist, is a phenomenology of the sacred liturgy: perhaps the most capacious account of our desire for Christ in the Sacrament offered to us by a contemporary.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Translator’s note Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Opening Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Preface. The Ghent altarpiece, or, the adoration of the mystic lamb Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction. The swerve of the flesh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Descent into the abyss
1. Philosophy to its limit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. The staging of the last supper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. Eros Eucharisticized Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Part II. The sojourn of humankind
4. The animal that therefore i am Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
5. Return to the organic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
6. Embrace and differentiation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Part III. God incorporate
7. The passover of animality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
8. “This is my body” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
9. Plunging bodily Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Conclusion. The flesh in common Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 336
Keywords: Body; eros; chaos; animality; eucharist; transubstantiation; humanization; divinization; phenomenology; theology; philosophy of religion

eBook

Published: September 1, 2016
ISBN: 9780823270439