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(2016) Non-metaphysical theology after Heidegger, Dordrecht, Springer.
The thickness of things and the godding of Gods
eucharist, discipleship, and trinity
Peter S. Dillard
pp. 147-166
Dillard applies Gelassenheit theology to specific antinomies in traditional Catholic thinking about the Eucharist and recent Catholic thinking about religious vocations. The paradoxical understanding of transubstantiation as grounded in autonomous substances both available and not available to our senses is eschewed in favor of a non-paradoxical understanding of the Eucharistic as a transition from the ordinary "thickness' of things made phenomenally salient through our mindful practices in daily life to a new sacred "density" communicated through participation in religious ritual. Additionally, an existential confusion that Sandra M. Schneiders ascribes to human beings threatens to undermine her initially attractive account of celibate religious life. Dillard disarms this threat by construing members of religious communities as "future ones' intimating the possibility of humans fully and non-confusedly sharing in the plurality of a divinity that is no multiplicity.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58480-9_10
Full citation:
Dillard, P. S. (2016). The thickness of things and the godding of Gods: eucharist, discipleship, and trinity, in Non-metaphysical theology after Heidegger, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 147-166.