To Think God as Love

Jesus’ eucharistic body and Jesus’ mystical body 1 – the church – are not male, or female for that matter.  2 The eucharistic body is sub-sexual, so to speak, and the mystical body is supra-sexual: ‘neither male nor female in Christ’ (Gal 3.28). This speaks to the fact that Christ, without in any way lessening [...]

“The body of Christ that the Corinthians culpably fail to discern is at once the gathered congregation, which is the actual object of their misbehavior and to which Paul has just previously referred as the body of Christ, and the loaf and the cup, which are called Christ’s body by the narrative of institution he [...]

There is nothing old or stale about the memorial feast, the fruit of the vine is not old, the shed blood is not aged, the bread is not stale, the Lord’s body is not a mere thing of the past, the way is new and living. The thing most striking about the character of the [...]

Thus Eucharist and Scripture need to be held together if we are to have an adequate theology of either. The Eucharist is the primary locus of the listening Church, the place where it shows itself to be there in response to the call of God; and the Scripture that embodies that call has to be [...]

On the heels of yesterday’s post, I thought I would add this:  The liturgy, therefore, wherever it has substance in the gospel, is a living, political event. The very example of salvation, it is the festival of life that foretells the fulfillment and maturity of all of  life for all of time in this time. [...]

When we confess  the church as the “body of Christ” we are not merely drawing an analogy, though as we see in St Paul (1 Cor 12:12-30) this is acceptable, too. We’re not saying (only) that the church functions organically, like a human body does.  We’re saying that the church is in some sense Christ’s [...]