Theology of food
Subtitle: eating and the Eucharist
By: Angel F. Méndez Montoya.
Series: Illuminations
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781405189675
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Doctrines; Lord's Supper -- Catholic Church; Food -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
Description: The links between religion and food have been known for centuries, and yet we rarely examine or understand the nature of the relationship between food and spirituality, or food and sin. Drawing on literature, politics, and philosophy as well as theology, this book unlocks the role food has played, and shows religion in a new and illuminating light.:.; A fascinating book tracing the centuries-old links between theology and food, showing religion in a new and intriguing light.; Draws on examples from different religions: the significance of the apple in the Christian Bible and the eating of brea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : food talk : overlapping matters; title: The making of Mexican molli and alimentary theology in the making; title: Sabor/saber : taste and the eros of cognition; title: Being nourished : food matters; title: Sharing in the body of Christ and the theopolitics of superabundance; title: Conclusion : food notes : prolegomenon to a Eucharistic discourse.