The eucharist, albeit a recapitulation of Christ\u2019s execution, was not therefore a symbol of death but of life, birth and nursing. As I have argued elsewhere, it stood for Christ\u2019s humanness and therefore for ours. By eating it and, in that eating, fusing with Christ\u2019s hideous physical suffering, the Christian not so much escaped <\/em>as became <\/em>the human.<\/strong> eta: Oops! \u201cHideious\u201d was a typo, not a pun\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The eucharist, albeit a recapitulation of Christ\u2019s execution, was not therefore a symbol of death but of life, birth and nursing. As I have argued elsewhere, it stood for Christ\u2019s humanness and therefore for ours. By eating it and, in that eating, fusing with Christ\u2019s hideous physical suffering, the Christian not so much escaped as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
\u2013Caroline Walker Bynum, \u201cWomen\u2019s Stories, Women\u2019s Symbols: A Critique of Victor Turner\u2019s Theory of Liminality,\u201d in Fragmentation and Redemption<\/em><\/p>\n