The Eucharist : bodies, bread, & resurrection /

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Author / Creator:Bieler, Andrea, 1963-
Uniform title:Abendmahl. English
Imprint:Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2007.
Description:viii, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6646140
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Other authors / contributors:Schottroff, Luise.
ISBN:9780800638672 (alk. paper)
0800638670 (alk. paper)
Notes:Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-240) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • A Eucharist in Advent
  • The Eucharistic Life
  • Sacramental Permeability
  • Eschatological Imagination
  • The Eucharist in the New Testament
  • The Sequence of the Meal
  • The Community at Table
  • Jesus' Interpretive Words
  • This Book
  • 1. Eschatological Imagination
  • A Procession to the Table
  • Expectation: Waiting with Eager Longing
  • Imagination: Come, See, and Taste
  • The Fabric of Eschatological Imagination
  • Making Sense of New Testament Eschatology
  • "Today"
  • The New Covenant
  • The Arrival of the Son of Man
  • The Coming of God
  • The Captivity of Eschatological Imagination
  • Colonial Desire
  • Dualistic Thinking
  • Colonized Imagination
  • 2. The Eucharist as Eschatological Meal
  • Christ Has Died, Christ Is Risen, Christ Will Come Again
  • "I Will Not Drink Again of the Fruit of the Vine..."
  • "Proclaim the Messiah's Death until He Comes"
  • "The New Covenant in My Blood"
  • The Eucharist as Experience of Resurrection
  • "Let Your Church Be Gathered into Your Reign": Eucharist in the Didache
  • 3. The Bread of Life in Two Economies
  • The Bread of Death: Dieting America and Global Food Politics
  • The Hope of the Hungry in the NewTestament
  • Jesus' Hunger
  • Bread Miracles and God's Economy
  • "Not by Bread Alone": Jesus' Temptations (Matthew4:l-ll)
  • The Holy Meal and the Homo Oeconomicus
  • The Imagination of the Homo Oeconomicus
  • The Alternative Economics of Eucharist
  • Eucharist as Gift Exchange
  • Sustainability: Abundant Love and Limited Resources
  • The Mimicry of Market Exchange
  • Dissent from the Omnipotence of Homo Oeconomicus
  • Giving Thanks
  • Returning Gifts
  • Consecrating Private Property
  • Interceding
  • 4. The Body Politics of Eucharist
  • Real Bodies at the Meal
  • "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
  • Making the Tortured Body Visible
  • "My Body-Given for You": Eucharist and the Language of Sacrifice
  • 5. Eschatological Remembrance (Anamnesis)
  • The Act of Remembering
  • What We Remember
  • How We Remember
  • Reciprocal Activity
  • Anamnetic Empathy
  • Embodied Practice
  • Mapping Sites of Anamnesis
  • 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
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Biblical Verses
  • Index of Names and Subjects