Tasting the Eucharistic Lord as Usable (1 Peter 2:3)
The highly metaphorical sentence in 1 Pet 2:1-3 occasions a wide diversity of opinions among Petrine commentators about the description of Christians as newborn babies, about the exhortation to desire the logical milk, and about the odd expression of tasting the Lord. In this essay, I propose that a...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2016]
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The catholic biblical quarterly
Year: 2016, Volume: 78, Issue: 3, Pages: 515-525 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Petrusbrief 1. 2,1-3
/ Diet
/ Baby
/ Eucharist
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament NBE Anthropology NBP Sacramentology; sacraments |
| Further subjects: | B
Nutrition
B Eucharistic prayers B Christian children B Religious Aspects B Eucharist B Lord B newborn babies B Bible. Petrusbrief 1. 2,3 B logical milk B Lord's Supper B Moral exhortation B Taste B Petrine office |
| Summary: | The highly metaphorical sentence in 1 Pet 2:1-3 occasions a wide diversity of opinions among Petrine commentators about the description of Christians as newborn babies, about the exhortation to desire the logical milk, and about the odd expression of tasting the Lord. In this essay, I propose that a eucharistic reading of this metaphorical sentence makes the most sense of ancient theories of nutrition in general, infant nutrition in particular, and the role that taste plays in nutrition. The Petrine author assumes that his readers are familiar with these theories and with the function of taste and that they are capable of mapping the source domains these nutritional theories provide to the target domains of the metaphors he uses in 1 Pet 2:1-3. An investigation of these nutritional theories, therefore, suggests how the Petrine author and his readers may have read and mapped the metaphors in this sentence. |
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| ISSN: | 0008-7912 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic biblical quarterly
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