The wedding feast of the Lamb : eros, the body, and the Eucharist

The wedding feast of the Lamb : eros, the body, and the Eucharist / Emmanuel Falque ; translated by George Hughes.

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...

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Main Author: Falque, Emmanuel, 1963- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Perspectives in continental philosophy.
Subjects:
Human body (Philosophy)
Human body > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Lord's Supper > Real presence.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Christology.
Human body > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
Lord's Supper > Real presence
Online Access:Click for online access
Uniform Title:Noces de l'agneau.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Translator's Note; Opening; Preface: The Ghent Altarpiece, or, Th eAdoration of the Mystic Lamb; Introduction: The Swerve of the Flesh; PART I: DESCENT INTO THE ABYSS; 1. Philosophy to Its Limit; 1. The Residue of the Body; 2. Chaos and Tohu-Bohu; 3. The Limit of the Phenomenon; 4. Bodying Life; 2. The Staging of the Last Supper; 5. The Figure of the Lamb; 6. From the Mystic Lamb to the Flayed Ox; 7. Toward Another Metamorphosis; 8. A Matter of Culture; 3. Eros Eucharisticized; 9. The Body Eucharisticized and the Body Eroticized.
  • 10. Charitable God11. From Birth to Abiding; 12. The Reason for Eating; PART II: THE SOJOURN OF HUMANKIND; 4. The Animal That Therefore I Am; 13 The Other Side of the Angel; 14. The Animal in Common; 15. From the Turn to the Forgetting; 16. The Metaphysical Animal; 5. Return to the Organic; 17. What the Body Can Do; 18. Manifesto of the Flesh; 19. In Flesh and Bones; 20. The Work of Art in Prose; 6. Embrace and Differentiation; 21. The Difference at the Origin; 22. Love of the Limit; 23. Desire and Differentiation; 24. The Gaps of the Flesh; PART III: GOD INCORPORATE.
  • 7. The Passover of Animality25. Return to the Scandal; 26. Getting around the Scandal; 27. The Dispute over Meat; 28. Hominization and Filiation; 8. "This Is My Body"; 29. Transubstantiation; 30. Incorporation; 31. Consecration; 32. Adoration; 9. Plunging Bodily; 33. The Assumption of the Flesh ["encharnement"]; 34. The Viaticum; 35. The Rapture of the Wedding Feast; 36. Abiding ["manence"]; Conclusion: The Flesh in Common; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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