My Flesh Is Meat Indeed: A Nonsacramental Reading of John 6:51-58
Meredith J. C. Warren, "My Flesh Is Meat Indeed: A Nonsacramental Reading of John 6:51-58"
English | ISBN: 1451490240 | 2015 | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1451490240 | 2015 | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Readers have long puzzled over the absence from the Johannine Last Supper of any words by Jesus over bread and winesuggesting to some that John is indifferent or even hostile to sacramental thought or actionand the apparent dislocation to the feeding miracle, in John 6, of Jesus declaration that believers must eat his flesh. Meredith J. C. Warren argues that in fact, the bread of life discourse in John 6:51c-58 does not bear any Eucharistic overtones. Rather, John plays on shared cultural expectations in the ancient Mediterranean world about the nature of heroic sacrifice and the accompanying sacrificial meal, which established the identification of a hero with a deity.
From Homer and continuing through Greek romances like Chaereas and Callirhoe, An Ephesian Tale, Leucippe and Clitophon,
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