A Banqueter's Guide to the All-Night Soup

A Banqueter's Guide to the All-Night Soup Kitchen of the Kingdom of God examines the moral implications of the Eucharist through four metaphors of bread, table, body, and sacrifice. The author describes how such metaphors connect Jesus's words and actions with current issues in society. Book jacket.

Patrick T. McCormick, S.T.D., teaches Christian ethics at Gonzaga University

Preface---``Do This in Memory of Me''

ix

Take and Eat

1

(38)

A Sacrament of Eating and Drinking

1

(4)

The Meaning of Eating and Drinking: Recognizing Ourselves as Hungry Eaters

5

(8)

Food and Hunger

5

(3)

Food and Grace

8

(2)

Food and Pleasure

10

(3)

America's Dis-Ease with Food

13

(4)

Too Much Dieting

14

(1)

Too Much Fa(s)t Food

15

(1)

Too Much Hunger

16

(1)

Unconscious Eating in America

17

(8)

Eating the ``Fruit of the Earth'' Unconsciously

18

(3)

Eating the ``Work of Human Hands'' Unconsciously

21

(3)

Unconscious Consumers

24

(1)

The Eucharist and Eating Consciously

25

(14)

Remembering Our Hunger, and the Hunger of the Poor

26

(2)

Remembering God's Graciousness

28

(2)

From Memory to Mission

30

(9)

The Breaking of the Bread

39

(34)

A School for Manners

39

(4)

Hospitality: Making Room for the Poor

43

(9)

An Ancient Virtue

43

(2)

Jesus and Hospitality

45

(3)

Eucharistic Hospitality

48

(2)

Present Challenges

50

(2)

Friendship: Welcoming Outcasts and Sinners

52

(9)

The Friend of Sinners and Outcasts

53

(4)

Friendship at the Eucharistic Table

57

(2)

Present Challenges

59

(2)

Service: Dismantling Hierarchies

61

(7)

A Sign of Contradiction

61

(2)

Jesus' Table Service

63

(3)

Eucharistic Table Service

66

(1)

Present Challenges

67

(1)

Conclusion

68

(5)

``This Is My Body''

73

(38)

Recognizing the Body of Christ

73

(2)

What it Means to Be Somebody

75

(5)

Taking Bodies Seriously

80

(5)

The Eucharist and the Church

85

(6)

Solidarity with the Bodies of the Poor

91

(5)

Solidarity with the Bodies of Women

96

(5)

Kinship with the Bodies and Body of Creation

101

(5)

Conclusion

106

(5)

An Unbloody Sacrifice

111

(1)

The Sacrifice of the Mass

111

(4)

The Problem of Sacrifice

115

(3)

Our Scapegoats

118

(4)

``Mercy, Not Sacrifice''

122

(1)

The God of the Scapegoats

123

(4)

The God Who Becomes the Scapegoat

127

(3)

The Un-Sacrifice of Christ

130

(1)

The Metaphor of Sacrifice

131

(3)

Christ's ``Un-sacrifice''

134

(2)

A Remembrance of Christ's Un-Sacrifice

136

(1)

Sacrificial Amnesia

137

(2)

A Dangerous Memory

139

(4)

Conclusion

143

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A Banqueter's Guide to the All-Night Soup Kitchen of the Kingdom of God

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