After communion, molecules of Christ pass into the world through exhalation and excretion. Slowly, the biosphere becomes the body of Christ.
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Replying to @ValidOfPriors
I think my friend wrote a lit dissertation on this problem, apparently a big deal in early 18th century West Europe
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Replying to @eigenrobot
It's my vague understanding Catholic priests can undo it. Maybe not possible for more textually-based Lutherans and others?
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Replying to @ValidOfPriors
HUH. Unsure! I thought Lutherans mostly saw transubstantiation as metaphor? What I recall most especially . . .
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is theological issues w/ eating wheat grown where people maybe been buried -> cannibalism. Eucharist issue seems isomorphic?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @ValidOfPriors
re bodies, also issue of what would end up resurrected on judgement day if one person --> wheat --> another person
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wait! she's on twitter.
@allsoils I'm sorry if I've mangled your dissertation, I probably have :(1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @eigenrobot @ValidOfPriors
Dude no, you did great! And yeah--Protestants pretty much all see transubstantiation as metaphor.
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glad I remembered the gist of it! so cool to hear how people struggled to rectify new and old ideas like that.
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